Griefsplit
The fracture in your mind when trivial news follows a day of undeserved deaths.
Topic
Loss
A collection of 19 issues
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.
Ghostround
Passing a bed where a patient should be, hours after they have died.
Medicine avec frontiers
The opposite of medicine sans frontiers or doctors without borders. Those services who just refuse to take a patient. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Medical widow
The long suffering spouse of a neurosurgeon. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Maybeists
Doctors who never state what should be done but rather 'you could do this' or 'you could do that'. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Insultants
Consultants who act as if they are a genius and everyone else a moron. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Diagnostristitia
Chartshroud
How a life is flattened into a few cold lines on a screen after death.
Dylarchic
Describing the false sense of mastery over death that healthcare workers sometimes acquire — the illusion that with enough skill, no one should die.