Between us in the last few weeks we’ve seen patients with itchy teeth, sudden improvement in hearing and arm pain during urination. Each one gets a polite ripple of laughter until it’s Seamus’s turn. He tells us he saw someone in A&E this morning who thought they were only sweating from half of their face.
He sits back in anticipation of bringing the house down, but there’s merely silence. Until pretty much everyone chimes in with: “So, Horner’s Syndrome then?”. He’s never heard of it specifically not the fact that it likely indicates a lung tumour. Seamus scrapes hos chair back with an ear-splitting screech qnd dashes off to make a phone call to get the patient back to the department. I finish his Twix.