A medical student describes the frightening, disorientating world of his first hospital placement
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Somewhere lurking underneath, there are other words. Functional impairment. Brain damage. Paralysis. Comatose. Death. Closed blinds serve to block out the rising sun, though its golden fingers still curl invasively around their slitted edge. A single strip of sunlight crosses the room, cutting a razor-thin line through the middle of what looks to be a tumour. A lone piece of dust glints in the beam, swirling in and out of view.
It is my first placement in hospital, and none of this experience is familiar to me. I am unclear where to stand or sit, when to speak or be silent, or what is happening on any given day. I find myself wondering whether I should I be thinking or feeling my way through. The second part of this meeting is a discussion of things that have yet to happen. Plans, schedules, discharges, admissions. It is for this last purpose that the monitors have been erected, and all attention now turns to the images waiting on the screen.
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