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Five-minute reads about real life as a junior doctor
On Exhaustion
Exhaustion tastes metallic. It’s ok in this moment though. It’s unusually tranquil. A heart rate monitor beeps gently in the background, the soundtrack of hospital nights. I hear snores. I’m chewing on a mini cheddar, it sits pap-like between my teeth and cheek. Funny...
Asystole
When you are faced with a lifeless person time arrests. He was on the floor of the bathroom, head greyed, pink foam around his mouth, neck flexed against the porcelain, chins blending into chest and silent. We practice endlessly for this scene. Shout help, airway,...