Doctor’s Hours

Published on by Susi Bocks
Oleksii S – Unsplash

Inspired by Sadje’s What do you see #128

the cobwebs of the day grew thicker
even coffee proved useless
after three ten-hour shifts
mucking around in and on the bodies of those ravaged
by detrimental accidents necessitating ER visits
an assembly line of in-home, highway, work, and all other accident producing places
a mild laceration from slicing oranges
to a hand versus garbage disposal situation
or fists breaking windows following jaws broken by fists
to anaphylactic shock from eating peanuts
using a scale of 1 – 10
i witnessed and fixed hundreds of every number
i was exhausted
it was time to go home

my decision to stay for the third shift
may not have been my best
as i watched cones laid around
my mangled car
the overturned truck and its driver
unconscious but thankfully breathing, unlike me
my dead and bloodied body on the pavement still
the red life liquid from my corpse almost reaching the closest cone

if only i’d stayed in my lane

15 thoughts on “Doctor’s Hours”

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      1. They do in the UK. Some doctors and Nurses do 48hr shifts. There is no way that’s safe in terms of diagnosis and treating properly. No way it should be legal and after that length of work, they should never be allowed to drive until they sleep either. Terrible really.

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