All Bleeding Stops Eventually: A Lenny Moss Mystery

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Vary your tone as much as possible. Juxtapose high seriousness with raunchy language with lyrical beauty with violence with dark comedy with awe with eroticism. I guess you’re hoping that somewhere in this pointless, rambling discourse, I have a point that ties all this together. And I do, sort of. It is this: Florence dedicated her life to helping those in need. She was a trailblazer who led a group of nurses to care for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War and developed revolutionary views about hygiene and sanitation. Hailed as a heroine by Queen Victoria and the British people upon her return from the front, Florence Nightingale went on to establish the Nightingale Training School for Nurses and despite chronic illness, continued in her efforts to reform healthcare at home and abroad from her London salon. Comedian and broadcaster Dr Phil Hammond's How I Ruined Medicine draws on his own experiences to ask if his investigations into medical malpractice have done more harm than good for healthcare overall.

This thought only appeared for the briefest instant and I was able to keep my steely resolve, to focus on the task at hand, mostly thanks to my years of experience, but also in part due to that old mantra. I abandoned any pretense of saving the patient. He was clearly still alive if not conscious. What else but his beating heart would be causing the blood to continue to pump? I only wanted to leave and call in reinforcements, maybe an exorcist or shaman. Even professionals fumble and make mistakes, or freeze entirely, especially the first time they do something in the field. This is why medical training consists of repeated simulation practice and then graduated, supervised, practice in real life. Further, it’s worth noting a lot of physicians and medical professionals are spectacularly bad at skills they rarely or never use in their practice. A dermatologist, despite his MD, is not going to necessarily be any better at using a tourniquet than a janitor who went through a stop the bleed seminar. A veteran nurse who works in a pediatrician’s office is not necessarily going to be any better at CPR than one of the college students I trained this fall. From 10 July, Radio 4 will interrogate the current challenges facing the NHS and consider suggested solutions with four-part documentary series The NHS: Who Cares? presented by Kevin Fong. The series will bust myths as it takes a hard look at the realities of the modern day complexities of providing healthcare fit for 21st century Britain. In Al Smith's two part drama, All Bleeding Stops Eventually, the NHS is examined from the viewpoint of a doctor who becomes a patient.

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This is obviously bar-napkin math, but you begin to see why people who do what I do often pursue what to the public may seem like counterintuitive aims. “Why are we spending all this money on training when we could invest it in armed guards to keep people safe?”. Mass-training programs, like the now decades-long push to teach the public CPR, provide a lot of benefits compared to the relatively modest investment required.

Good playwriting is a collaboration between your many selves. The more multiple your personalities, the further, wider, deeper you will be able to go. Be prepared to risk your entire reputation every time you write, otherwise it's not worth your audience's time. Phil Hammond on his role in exposing medical malpractice and whether this has done more harm than good. Using archive from the BBC, Private Eye, newspapers and his seven books.

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In all your plays be sure to write at least one impossible thing. And don't let your director talk you out of it. To my right, a crimson curtain cascaded down, splashing and deteriorating into the pool that I found myself lying in. In a dreamlike daze, I held my fingers up to the warm and dripping liquid, let it run down my hand and forearm. How the light glinted off of the blood. For BBC Radio 4, coverage will begin with Dr Kevin Fong and Isabel Hardman in a special episode of Start the Week alongside GP Phil Whitaker and the historian Andrew Seaton. Also that week, a one-off documentary The NHS at 75: Covid Memories will reflect on the pandemic through the experience of health service staff. Think of information in a play like an IV drip -- dispense just enough to keep the body alive, but not too much too soon.

I found a brief solace in the stoic saying, but cynicism returned. Whoever had written that saying had never been in a situation like this, a patient bleeding an infinite supply of blood.But to teach someone a skill is not to terrorize them. Teaching someone a skill, showing them how to fix something, is empowering. Every child (and certainly every adult) should know how to use a tourniquet and do CPR from the point they’re physically strong enough to do those skills. It’s not ‘normalizing’ violence or injury, it is empowering people to be masters of their own fate. Ideas may be deeply embedded in the interactions and reactions of your character; they may be in the music and poetry of your form. You have thoughts and you generate ideas constantly. A play ought to embody those thoughts and those thoughts can serve as a unifying energy in your play.