Panache
A cross between ache and panic. The feeling you get when you walk into a family meeting and suddenly remember you can’t think of the patients name you are about to talk about. Submitted by Sebastian Knudsen.
Topic
Moments
A collection of 29 issues
Wardhum
The low, constant background noise of monitors, murmurs, and footsteps that you stop hearing until you leave.
Walllean
Veinspotting
The idle pastime of scanning strangers arms for possible cannulation sites.
Smockghost
Catching the faint smell of a colleague's perfume or aftershave long after they have left.
Pixelhold
The breathless pause while an X-ray crawls onto the screen.
Phlevue
Nightwater
Namefold
The way you mentally fold away a patient's name so it does't follow you home.
Liftwhisper
The hushed conversations in a lift after something terrible.