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2012 9:46am  Placement week. I was posted to Quentin’s hospital
for three 12 hour shifts  in A&E. I walked into reception area
of Quentin’s at 9.40am. A man who bore an uncanny resemblance to
Russell Brand in both appearance and dress was pacing up and
down. He wore black women’s pumps, black leggings, and dirty
black duffel jacket. His face was unshaven and hair was unkept
and matted. Smudged eye-liner framed bleary eyes. Just another
day at A&E. He strode up to the receptionists before me and, in
a surprisingly well-spoken voice, consulted them on something,
I’m not sure what. They spoke to him just as they spoke to me,
in a non-judgmental, courteous manner.   Mouse came through the
double doors from Majors. He had started before me at 7am. ‘This
way for your scrubs Jeromeo’, an affectionate suffix the
cohort’s adopted for me ever since I tried chatting up one of
the lecturers during an