Treatment
2 stories: 1 from a doctor, 1 from a patient
This collection has the same experience described from both sides — worth reading as a pair.
Door to balloon, fifty-one minutes. A textbook result and I was pleased with it. Then he came back to clinic six weeks later, physically well and quietly falling apart, and I realised I had treated an artery and discharged a person.
Everyone kept telling me how lucky I had been and how well it had gone. They were right. I still spent a month and a half convinced that every heartbeat I could feel was the beginning of the end.