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The sinking feeling when the plans you’ve already set in motion slowly slither back into inertia despite your best efforts—so the same unresolved problem is waiting for you, unchanged, on the next ward round. Submitted by Nandika.

A convenient fiction deployed to suggest urgent professional collaboration, when in fact it is code for escaping to a quiet corner for a restorative cup of tea. Submitted by Peter Brindley.