Matronymosis
The strange flicker of tenderness and discomfort when a patient shares your mother’s name - as if care suddenly becomes personal, memory and medicine briefly overlapping.
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A collection of 186 issues
Solar power specialist
Those that stop working when the sun goes down. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Glovelock
That flash of panic when you canât get a glove off quickly.
Bleepinertia
The resistance to agreeing to any unexpected requests to do work on a day you thought would be quiet. Submitted by Sebastian Knudsen.
Shame-edit
When forced to follow a reviewer's suggestions for an academic rewrite even when patently wrong or misses the point. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Glancecode
The silent exchange of looks between staff when things turn serious.
Pretendoscope
The cheap and non-functional piece of stethoscope-shaped plastic ceremonially bestowed to allow us to pretend we might actually hear something other than our own disappointment. Submitted by Sebastian Knudsen.
Any-itis
How to concisely summarise immune checkpoint inhibitor toxicities that can affect any part of the body. Submitted by Dan Patterson.
Ghostround
Passing a bed where a patient should be, hours after they have died.
Publishitis
The compulsive urge to turn every passing clinical thought, observation, or half-baked idea into a paper. Submitted by Peter Brindley.