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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—?