Topic
Life
A collection of 43 issues
Sminker
A patient both smokes tobacco and drinks alcohol. Submitted by Dan Patterson.
Hopeshelf
The bathroom shelf where every partly used cream and miracle serum from a hopeful week quietly goes to expire. Submitted by Jan Davies.
Hopedrawer
The kitchen drawer where every half-finished bottle of supplements from a bad month quietly goes to retire.
Statquiet
The unnatural stillness that falls in the seconds before a crash call team arrives.
Helliday
A holiday during which you are physically absent from work but mentally still on the rota, ruminating on emails you haven’t received yet. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Napsats
The need for infants and young children to sleep on oxygen saturations monitoring before discharge. Submitted by Mark Tighe.
Doctor
A title confidently used by dentists and professors when checking in for flights, and conspicuously avoided by medical practitioners keen not to be summoned mid-air for a “quick look”. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Pagertide
The relentless rhythm of bleeps pulling you back again and again, no matter the hour.
Nightface
When the day team think you've just finished a night shift, but you haven't. Submitted by Anahita Sharma.