The Seamans Dispensary
Memoirs of an ICU Nurse with 47 years experience.
Liverpool, London, Edinburgh, Saudi Arabia, Dublin and Sligo!
The Seamans Dispensary
Westminster Hospital, London 1983
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Nick
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Season 1
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Episode 6
Westminster Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Starched aprons and frilly hats that looked like large birds nests .
The unweanable Max and his 9 month stay in ICU on a Servo Ventilator.
The A.I.D.S epidemic hits the ICU. multiple young men on ventilators, 100% oxygen and P.E.E.Ps of 15cms, inotropes maxed out, dialysed but dying none the less with no known cause.