A&E 2 ICU

30+ Tales from the Hospital Bed

By: Trevor Watts

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Tales from thee Hospital Bed

Thirty+ stories from the site of the crash to the operating theatre and recovery room; from the hospital bed on the trauma ward with all its doctors, nurses, visitors and fellow patients; from the bedside watchers and new beginnings beyond the discharge lounge.

• If they get you out this wreck, how much of you can be saved?
• You need the calm and peace overnight, but you weren’t counting on her.
• After an incident that bad, some things are best not admitted.
• We consultants have some out-the-way cases; but this one…
• Your foul-mouthed senior surgeon has it in for you; but what can you do?

• If a catlick is good enough for my tortoiseshell, it’s good enough for me.
• That guy behind the curtains is gonna cough his guts up soon…
• Is it the nurse? Is it the medication? Or is it the bed?
• You just know this new guy is faking it, so…
• We have so many staff off today, but you’ll hardly notice.

• On discharge, your dear wife does everything she can to protect you.
• Totally blinded, what’s your greatest problem in rehab?
• Has your Earthly suffering been sufficient to get you past Peter the Pearly Gateman?
• Come on, God: are you really so vindictive you’d kill me off like this?

… and eighteen more, penned from the bed of a man informed he has a week to live.
Well, they got that wrong, didn’t th—?