The Dictionary of Blood and Silence
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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.
Lifespill
Lasttwenty
The warped stretch of time that turns the last 20 minutes of a shift into an epoch.
Firstlight
Farsilence
The distant quiet you hear on a ward at 3 a.m., knowing it can shatter at any second.
Diagturn
The jolt when a colleague uncovers a new diagnosis in a patient you thought you understood.
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