For five years, I have been collecting medical anecdotes. They exist in a file of short stories, anonymised, and with invented names. There are encounters in the chaos of the ED, in crowded wards during Covid, in eerily underpopulated private hospitals. Lists of narrators include elderly parents, friends, relatives. There are accounts by patients, doctors and nurses. There are stories that are excruciating, funny,
A story in notes
Sep 25, 2023
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