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.
Topic
Loss
A collection of 16 issues
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.
Schuldobjekt
An object of guilt causing the feeling of owing a debt. Experienced after you’ve inadvertently harmed a patient. Something that has to be walked towards, not away from. Submitted by Adi Kumar.
Bedpull
The silent teamwork of moving a patient for the last time.
Solivane
From solus (alone) + vanus (emptied). A parent who has lost a child; one who moves through the world carrying an absence like a shadow.