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Bad day at the clinicFrom: STEWART PRINGLE (100724.2333@compuserve.com)Wed Mar 13 11:17:02 1996
The gynaeclology clinic started a little late this morning. The women with follow-up visits seemd to be mostly satisfied though. Then news of the shootings started to reach us. At first, a few, then more, then 16 children had been shot dead in the primary school gym a few miles away. (The sort of thing that "only happens in America.") Staff disappeared from the clinic, patients moved their cars from the car park in case a helicopter landing site was required. Consultations became increasingly remote as neither myself nor the patients could focus on their problems (maybe they weren't that bad after all.) The clinic eventually fizzled out with staff wandering about trying to take in the deaths of so many children just a few miles away. Dunblane is a small, middle-class community of a few thousand people where many of our staff live. No-one had any experience of this sort of thing before. Many were in tears, the rest too stunned. I went to the post natal ward to see the women I delivered yesterday. A mother of long awaited IVF twins at once overjoyed that her twins were doing fine but shocked at the tragedy that had overcome her friends and community. It is a bewildering experience for everyone at the hospital. I'm sorry if this is not the purpose for which the list was intended but I don't believe in a closed list and I do believe that we should be able to share our bad experiences. It helps me anyway. Thanks for "listening".
-- Stewart Pringle Career Registrar Stirling Royal Infirmary Stirling, UK 100724.2333@compuserve.com
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