{"id":12700,"date":"2019-07-07T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=12700"},"modified":"2019-07-07T06:20:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T05:20:57","slug":"seventy-one-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2019\/07\/07\/seventy-one-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventy-one and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year of Team NHS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For the past two years<\/a>, I have published a list of reasons<\/a> to be thankful for the NHS on the occasion of its birthday. This year, to my great embarrassment, I let the day slip by. That is no reason not to publish another, longer, list though. Here are 71 reasons to be thankful…<\/p>\n

1. For every hand held
\n2. For every restless researcher, in pursuit of an elusive cure
\n3. For every patient receptionist, calming the anxious arrival
\n4. For every porter, expert in negotiating emotions as well as corners
\n5. For every play therapist, busying imaginations whilst bodies rest
\n6. For every phlebotomist, extracting the stuff of life in order to give it back
\n7. For every cleaner, fighting a battle with the invisible enemy
\n8. For every medical student, eager to join the fray
\n9. For every GP, meeting whatever comes through the door with professionalism
\n10. For every nurse, working out the meaning of care by delivering it
\n11. For every anaesthetist, measuring life by breaths.
\n12. For every surgeon, wounding to heal
\n13. For every tea poured
\n14. For every chaplain, speaking volumes, sometimes with words
\n15. For every physiotherapist, moved by movement
\n16. For every pharmacist who regards precision as the best medicine
\n17. For every radiographer, looking hard at what cannot be seen
\n18. For every occupational therapist, paying extraordinary attention to the ordinary
\n19. For every paediatrician, with big patience for little patients
\n20. For every hand washed
\n21. For every paramedic, always quick, never rushed
\n22. For every midwife, treating each birth as if it were the only one
\n23. For every theatre technician, using tools and loving people
\n24. For every audiologist, savouring the sound of sound
\n25. For every breath monitored
\n26. For every oncologist, fighting a battle cell by cell
\n27. For every medical school lecturer, honing tomorrow\u2019s talent
\n28. For every manager, balancing competing needs whilst life hangs in the balance
\n29. For every volunteer greeter, lowering the threshold for those who fear to step over it
\n30. For every immunologist helping each me to fight back
\n31. For every nurse practitioner \u2013 caring, advocating and communicating
\n32. For every endocrinologist, whose moans are hormones
\n33. For every psychologist, whose landscape is the mind
\n34. For every prosthetist, whose best limbs are not their own
\n35. For every brow furrowed
\n36. For every caretaker who takes care that others might deliver it
\n37. For every secretary who controls a diary to set its owner free
\n38. For every cardiologist, never missing a beat
\n39. For every volunteer driver, getting people to places
\n40. For every chiropodist, healing the heels
\n41. For every caterer, feeding those too tired to taste
\n42. For every geriatrician who believes getting old should be getting better
\n43. For every Community psychiatric nurse whose patch is people
\n44. For every bed manager who rarely sees their own
\n45. For every ward clerk who keeps track because they keep up
\n46. For every ward housekeeper who keeps house like it was home
\n47. For every opthalmologist who sees what seeing is
\n48. For every practice nurse jabbing flu in the arm
\n49. For every speech therapist, who wants all to have a voice.
\n50. For every dentist, by gum
\n51. For very heartbeat counted
\n52. For every dietitian , fed by a desire to help
\n53. For every staff nurse, professionally compassionate
\n54. For every ward sister, compassionately professional
\n55. For every dermatologist, whose care is more than skin deep
\n56. For every gastroenterologist, sick to the stomach at preventable illness
\n57. For every medical librarian, who wields information like a scalpel
\n58. For every first cry
\n59. For every Orthopaedist, bone tired but mending bones
\n60. For every neurologist, who minds
\n61. For every tear shed
\n62. For every counsellor whose door is open
\n63. For every pathologist, for whom the worst disease is inaction
\n64. For every obstetrician for whom every birth is a triumph
\n65. For every estates manager for whom the building is a medical instrument
\n66. For every unpaid minute worked
\n67. For every music therapist, for whom the sweetest notes are not on a patient\u2019s file
\n68. For every last breath
\n69. For every day<\/p>\n

70. For every audiologist, imagining the silence in order to defeat it.<\/p>\n

71. For giving your best for my bravest and best.<\/p>\n

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Busy doing good…<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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