by Anonymous | 15th Dec 2020 | Clinician Stories, The Covid Diaries
The conversation was not one I was unfamiliar with. Discussing a serious diagnosis, a worrying test result, or a life limiting prognosis is something I have been doing on probably a weekly basis for years. This conversation was no different; the recipe that guides me...
by Anonymous | 17th Nov 2020 | Humanity, Patient Stories
When my husband was called up urgently in the evening by a consultant haematologist to come into the acute assessment unit at the local hospital, on the same day as he had had a routine blood test at the GP practice, this was never going to be ‘normal’. My husband...
by Anonymous | 11th Feb 2020 | Clinician Stories, HA
I stopped dead in my tracks when he couldn’t lift his head off the pillow. The smile of greeting was the same but I knew something was very wrong at his inability to raise up to meet me. For a moment time stopped and I froze. Not now? This was quick. Oh no! The last...
by Anonymous | 4th Feb 2020 | Clinician Stories, Humanity
She lay mostly silent and still, the occasional grimace the only indication of moments of intense pain and maybe fear. The freshly pressed, stark white bed sheet allowed little contrast against her cold skin; all colour had drained from her face and her arm...
by Anonymous | 5th Jul 2019 | Clinician Stories, Grief
“I’m not ready to go yet.” The words were barely understandable through the sobs, but the feeling and power with which they were spoken was immense. My patient was in her 30’s and had been admitted through the Emergency Department to the surgical ward I...
