Shiftmelt
The total surrender of body and mind collapsing into bed after a brutal night shift.
Matt Morgan
Scrubshade
Scalpshadow
The faint line of dryness where a scrub cap has pressed all day.
Plastisweat
Pixelhold
The breathless pause while an X-ray crawls onto the screen.
Phlevue
Pagerdrop
The instant icy sink in your stomach when the cardiac arrest pager erupts.
Nightwater
Nearmissium
The cold-hot relief of catching a near-disaster just in time.
Namefold
The way you mentally fold away a patient's name so it does't follow you home.