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 | 15th Sep 2020 | Humanity, Identity
In the words of the 1990s pop song, what do we want? What do we really, really want? From life? From work? From each other? Many people have asked this question over the centuries and most of the time the answers are a variation on the same theme. As human...
by Anonymous | 8th Sep 2020 | Education, Humanity
Five people, strangers, met one sunny Friday in early September. They had not met previously, but had come together with one sole purpose in mind – to create. Standing around in an airy workshop, stuffed to the rafters with material, tools, objects and knick knacks,...
by Anonymous | 25th Aug 2020 | Culture, Humanity
“I’m not as scary as I look,” he said, this young, wide eyed man standing in front of me. “I have been inside, for four years but it was for beating up my step dad, who beat up my step mum. I wouldn’t hurt anyone else. I’ve done my time...
