by Anonymous | 19th Jan 2021 | Clinician Stories, Identity
I can’t believe that we are only a few days away from the first year anniversary of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the UK. 31st January 2020. It almost seems surreal looking back over the last twelve months to think that this time last year none of us really had...
by Anonymous | 29th Sep 2020 | Culture, Identity
“If I want to get plastered on a Saturday night, and fight on my High Street,” a surgeon told me about 12 years ago, “ I can.” At that time I took issue with his view, my lofty beliefs then suggesting that professionalism was something we were, part of our...
by Anonymous | 1st Sep 2020 | Humanity, Identity
For the first time in six months, I felt I had a place in the world again. Six long months of uncertainty, of worry, or wondering if I would ever be needed in the ways that I was previously pre Covid. Not that we are post Covid at the moment, but we are...
by Anonymous | 2nd Jun 2020 | Education, Identity
It was Christmas Eve when they came in, cold, a few snow flurries. He had been on the floor for several days after his fall, and she, as old as her husband, but suffering from dementia, was confused and upset. She had managed to put a blanket over him and a pillow...
by Anonymous | 31st Mar 2020 | Clinician Stories, Identity
“What’s in a name? That which we call a roseby any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) I don’t know about you, but nowadays I am rubbish at remembering names. My neurosis reaches a critical point when at social gatherings...
