X-Rays
6.30pm 13th August
Doctors are easiest to recognise because they mainly wear a stethoscope around their neck. None of the staff introduced themselves – no name, no role. They’ve done away with these useful basics. They occassionally use my name to call me out of the increasingly amorphous queue in the waiting area.
Staff were all wearing different uniforms, I don’t know what the different colours and styles mean. Maybe I don’t need to know, maybe the uniforms are for the staff to know who they are, not for the patients. I saw:
- White tops with collars
- Light-blue tops with collars
- Royal blue tops with collars
- Green jump-suits
- Blue jump-suits
- Pink Jump-suits
Things changed slightly after my 6.30pm X-Rays. I became the “Smiths Fracture“. I could evesdrop on the staff talking amongst themselves about me- the fracture.
