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October 14 2011

There are two ways you can describe A&E shiftwork. One. Amazing. You finish on time, mostly. You know exactly what you are doing, when you are doing it. You can plan for holidays because you’ve got all your fixed annual leave for the next six months. You have random weekdays off. Excellent for catching up on paperwork. You have your adrenaline pumping - well this happens anyway because you’re meant to make decisions for the first time in your life. Fat sweaty lady with positive family history, diabetes and blood pressure through the roof comes in with central tightness on coming at rest sometimes radiating up the neck to jaw, tonight the tightness is not going away. Go home, it’s only some reflux lose some weight. Maybe not. Two. Isolating. Dinner and movie for one please, for the next six months. At present, I’m in the cinema. It’s Thursday night, 12am. My friends are sleeping. They need to be up tomorrow. Working like a normal person. I start at 5pm. Finish at 2am tomorrow. No transport provided for us after work. Let’s go hang out? Answer: sorry knackered from work, they’re already sleeping. Crap movie is starting. They got it wrong. It’s not drive. It’s something to do with being afraid of the dark. I-so-LA-tion. Is not good for me. I-so-LA-tion. I don’t want to sit on the lemon tree.

There are two ways you can describe A&E shiftwork.

One. Amazing.

You finish on time, mostly. You know exactly what you are doing, when you are doing it. You can plan for holidays because you’ve got all your fixed annual leave for the next six months.

You have random weekdays off. Excellent for catching up on paperwork.

You have your adrenaline pumping - well this happens anyway because you’re meant to make decisions for the first time in your life.

Fat sweaty lady with positive family history, diabetes and blood pressure through the roof comes in with central tightness on coming at rest sometimes radiating up the neck to jaw, tonight the tightness is not going away. Go home, it’s only some reflux lose some weight.

Maybe not.

Two. Isolating.

Dinner and movie for one please, for the next six months. At present, I’m in the cinema. It’s Thursday night, 12am. My friends are sleeping. They need to be up tomorrow. Working like a normal person. I start at 5pm. Finish at 2am tomorrow. No transport provided for us after work. Let’s go hang out? Answer: sorry knackered from work, they’re already sleeping.

Crap movie is starting. They got it wrong. It’s not drive. It’s something to do with being afraid of the dark.

I-so-LA-tion. Is not good for me.
I-so-LA-tion. I don’t want to sit on the lemon tree.