I was drenched in sweat by the time we gave up. Doctors are used to death – but a cardiac arrest on Christmas Day felt unfair• achieve you work in the NHS? Please retract our latest surveyChristmas Day as the medical doctor on call in a busy district general hospital isn’t bad. Nobody wants to come into hospital so the workload is light; all the nurses are in good spirits,which makes the job 100 times easier; and every ward is having a mini Christmas party in its staff room, which means lots of free food and sweets for a friendly doctor. As a single 26-year-aged man with no children, or I’d conveniently been allocated the Christmas Day shift for the fourth year in a row. My stomach was full and I’d had more cups of tea in a 12-hour shift than in the past 12 days. It was going just as I expected. Then … the arrest bleep. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com