Night-shift hospital work transformed from empty boredom to violent saturation

Evidence

You remember a doctor saying that twenty years ago, the night shift was so boring that the medics would engage in wheelchair races with one another. Not anymore. Not with all the knives, gun crime, fights, alcoholrelated accidents, stomach pumps… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2500

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Wartime paradoxically restores a fuller, more inhabited experience of night — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 35

Broader Connections