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No One Uses Names

I’ve noticed a chilling linguistic shift in the hospital and on the streets: people don’t use names for them anymore.…
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Final Index

I am handing my personal notes and the login for this blog over to Jamie. Not because I’ve finished what…
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Locked States

All hospital and municipal systems have been moved into ‘permanently restricted’ mode. The override paths have been removed. This is…
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Language Failure

I used the word ‘zombie’ in a staff meeting today. I didn’t say it as a joke, and I didn’t…
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Nightfall

The lights went out in a huge section of the town centre last night. This wasn’t a power cut or…
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First Contact

[OFFICIAL ADVISORY] I have been monitoring the traffic on this blog for some time. Consider this a formal advisory to…
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Too Close

I saw one of them today, and the image is burned into my retinas. It wasn’t a grainy figure on…
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Documented Behaviour

I’ve made a decision to remove all quotation marks from my clinical notes. These are no longer ‘reported behaviours’ or…
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System Response

Multiple security and IT systems throughout the hospital went into ‘restricted mode’ today without anyone actually triggering the command. That…
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Loss Of Containment

I am officially done pretending this is an abstract medical mystery. Whatever is happening in Stockport, it is no longer…