A Patient with a Number

I was 26 years old when I was a junior doctor working in the Bart’s and Homerton Hospital Accident and Emergency Unit. The two units tended to have very different clientele presenting with a very different set of symptoms.

The patient

One morning shift at Homerton was particularly memorable for me. A man was ambulanced in unconscious. There was not much information on him available. While the exact circumstances of how he was found is lost to memory, he was an elderly man w...