Goldblatt's Descent
by Michael Honig
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'But I just killed someone!' 'I don't know if I'd shout about it if I were you.' Malcolm Goldblatt paused. 'Look, you didn't kill him. It was waiting to happen. You just . . . helped.' 'Malcolm, they'll strike me off!' 'They can't strike you off. You're still a House Officer. They haven't struck you on yet . . . ' Malcolm Goldblatt has one last chance. Life, or his own obstinacy, has dumped him at the door of Professor Andrea Small's medical unit, where he will have the privilege of show more ministering to the world's most unimportant disease. But in so many ways, this unit is like all the others that Goldblatt has worked on, from Dr. Madic's ferocious aversion to work, to Dr. Burton's knife-in-the-back ambition, right up to the monstrous vanities of the professor herself--and that's before he even meets the patients. Soon the familiar cycle of hope and despair threatens to drag him into its eddy, and with his finger never far from the self-destruct button, the temptation to press it for what will surely be the final time begins to feel less like professional suicide and more like salvation. show lessTags
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When we are admitted to hospital, as eventually most of us will be, we hope to be treated not only with technical competence but with kindness and compassion. Hope, however, is not the same as expectation, and there are enough tales of inhumanity in our hospitals to make us tremble at the prospect of admission.
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