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There’s a patient I’ll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me – The Guardian

He has stayed with me for 25 years, even though I’ve left my job as a doctor in the NHS

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The night shift in A&E started off as normal: routine heart attacks, head injuries, road traffic accidents, an array of minor injuries. It was what happened next that has stayed with me for 25 years, long after I left my job as a doctor in the NHS.
I cant remember exactly when the unmistakably shrill sound of the trauma bleep went off, but I do recall feeling a familiar churning in my stomach. Was it excitement? Or was it a sense of foreboding, a warning that something bad was about to happ…

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