Stepfade
Walking out of the hospital into morning light after a night you'll never forget.
Topic
Moments
A collection of 69 issues
Pillhill
The cumulative burden of tablets, capsules and potions that turns living with a chronic illness into a daily uphill climb. Submitted by Olefella.
Skillflinch
The breath you hold watching a junior attempt a procedure for the first time.
Shiftdrift
The feeling of hours blending together until you're not sure which day you're in.
Shittyplan
A late-shift therapeutic manoeuvre of dubious wisdom, performed largely to avoid appearing inert, whose downstream effect is to oblige the incoming team to spend several hours reversing it, explaining it, and pretending it was not entirely avoidable. Submitted by Roxy.
Shiftosis
The end-of-shift condition in which enthusiasm for any challenging task declines in direct proportion to how close one is to handing over, often reaching its peak in the last hour, when even modest jobs begin to look unreasonable. May present as acute, chronic, or acute-on-chronic. Submitted
Nurse Osler
That nurse whose clinical judgment, calm authority, and quiet competence you trust more than 90% of your medical colleagues combined. Submitted by Peter Brindley.
Remorshock
The gut-drop when someone says "Remember that patient you saw" and you know it's bad.
Interpretastrophe
A situation where your words are marginally misinterpreted but the end result is a gulf away from what was desired. Submitted by James.
Politeness index
A measure of the professional civility demanded after a colleague’s disastrous intervention, calculated as inversely proportional to the time required to undo it. Submitted by Roxy.