Obeepity
When your gut mutes the pager sound whilst leaning forward. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Topic
Moments
A collection of 50 issues
Matronymosis
The strange flicker of tenderness and discomfort when a patient shares your mother’s name - as if care suddenly becomes personal, memory and medicine briefly overlapping.
Bleepinertia
The resistance to agreeing to any unexpected requests to do work on a day you thought would be quiet. Submitted by Sebastian Knudsen.
Glancecode
The silent exchange of looks between staff when things turn serious.
Publishitis
The compulsive urge to turn every passing clinical thought, observation, or half-baked idea into a paper. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Wordsworth Reflex
The brief, involuntary pause as your jaw tightens before uttering words you know will hurt someone. Submitted by Carole Morgan.
Exitcall
The pager going off just as youâre about to leave for the day.