https://anaesthesiargh.com/tags/survival/Recent content in Survival on anaesthesiarghHugoen-gbThu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/09/ode-to-the-coffee-machine/Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://anaesthesiargh.com/2024/09/ode-to-the-coffee-machine/The coffee machine in our theatre complex has been broken for three days. Morale has collapsed. Productivity is, somehow, even lower than usual. Grown consultants have been seen wandering the corridors with the vacant stare of the severely under-caffeinated. I’ve come to believe that the coffee machine is the most important piece of equipment in any hospital. More important than the CT scanner. More important than the ventilators. More important, certainly, than whatever that thing is in the corner of the storeroom that nobody has used since 1997 but we can’t throw away because “we might need it.