Life as a Junior Doctor

Photo by Nicholas Kampouris on Unsplash I was doing on call the other day. Once I entered the ward to get updates of patients and pending jobs from my colleagues, I was informed by the nurse that there would be a patient coming to the ward from Emergency department having transferred from another district hospital. Great, what a start of a night shift. Upon further questioning,...

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I have just completed a set of nights fulfilling the SHO post. I was covering back of house when I was called by a nurse from the ward. I could hear the emergency buzzer in the background. She said, 'A patient has died and he doesn't have a DNACPR.' 'You need to put the crash call out.' I was at that time in...

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