Autogaslight
When you know something, but are afraid to look a fool if mistaken. Submitted by Guillermo Uribe.
Topic
Loss
A collection of 22 issues
Riiight
When contact a colleague and begin with, "Do you remember that patient...". Submitted by Ross Fisher.
Liftstare
Standing in silence with relatives after breaking bad news.
Griefsplit
The fracture in your mind when trivial news follows a day of undeserved deaths.
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.