Pulsefade
The moment a once-strong pulse disappears beneath your fingertips.
Topic
Loss
A collection of 24 issues
Glooming
An initial conversation aiming to frame the current situation and prepare people for the bad things that will inevitably come. Submitted by Neil Hill.
Autogaslight
When you know something, but are afraid to look a fool if mistaken. Submitted by Guillermo Uribe.
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.