Junior doctor Sonia Henry recounts her 'shift from hell' at the frontline of medical services.
In this exclusive piece for The Feed, Sonia Henry recounts a night as a junior doctor that she'll never forget.I still remember thinking that I couldn't start crying until I was at least out the front doors of the emergency department, and I barely even made it there.
I wrote the script, and watched my fingers trembling. I barely even saw the dose I had written, nor the number of tablets. I stumbled into the light and out of sheer fatigue started to cry. Sonia Henry has used her own experiences as a junior doctor to inspire a new novel. But she says truth is stranger than fiction.We made eye contact. I knew my eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and crying, but I was beyond caring. I noticed, in an almost interested way, that his eyes looked very similar to mine. I knew him by sight, one of the surgical registrars.'Are you all right?' I heard myself asking. I never did know how to keep my mouth shut.
He'd been at work the night before until 11.00pm, and was having to drive to another hospital to do a major transplant operation at 3.00am. He thought he'd grab a kip before the drive but being on call meant he was dragged back into the hospital at midnight, to the scene of a young bloke bleeding to death.
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