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I seem to have a myriad of photos of our children, but I wonder where all the other photos of just the two of us went. Maybe I deleted them to save device memory. Maybe they’ll be replayed in my mind when space and time and work allow. But these are the photos that matter. They tell the beginning, and the end.  \nIn the silver frame, it’s the mid-2000s. We’re at a stadium in Manchester; a Coldplay concert. Thousands of lighters, high in the air, illuminate the background, an oscillating tide of light. We are toasting one another with warm beers, ignoring the drips escaping down our sticky wrists, as we sing along.  \n‘Lights will guide you home, and I will try to fix you…’  \nOurs was a friendship that faltered at first, despite our similarities. We were born on the same day, and started the same postgraduate training-scheme, in the same hospital, on our twenty-fifth birthdays. She’d moved back to her home city after training in London; I’d headed North for a change of scenery after studying and working in the Midlands. She was long-legged, sported an engagement ring and shone with confidence after working in Emergency Medicine near a major London motorway where she’d witnessed innumerable horrors unfold. I didn’t pause to wonder about the impact that must have had on her; rather, she became my go-to for clinical advice. Stunted by impostor syndrome, I was anxious and over-analysed, but it seemed nothing could faze her.  \nHospital medicine’s appeal soon faded for us both. At first, we’d enjoyed its intriguing, bright coin-face where drama and adrenaline and excitement gleamed. But, waiting on the other side, we learnt, was its tarnished face of trauma and death and failure. Whilst nonmedical friends had holidays and weddings and babies, we existed in a cold half-light, eating vending-machine dinners in a landscape of starched blue curtains, scratched taupe walls and screeching cardiac-arrest calls.  \nShe and I grew apart, separated by night-shifts and frantic fistfuls of social lives crammed into tiny roster gaps when they appeared. But when we saw each other at an end-ofrotation function, we found out we’d both decided to transfer to GP training, and had places on the same scheme. And we would start, on our birthdays again, at the same GP practice, in adjacent rooms.  \nAnd it was here that our friendship flourished. That small, hesitant flame that had faltered before was rekindled-rekindled by shared experiences of relationships ending, parents ageing, and discovering that impostor syndrome twisted its ugly tendrils around us both. GP training saw us both develop an interest in medical education, and whilst she trained to become a GP with a special interest in addiction medicine and substance misuse, I developed my interests in women’s health.  \nAnd fix each other we did, as we danced, camped and travelled around the UK and Europe. We fixed sunburn, hangovers, makeup disasters and carefully styled hair destroyed by torrential Glaswegian rain. We fixed car windscreen-wipers on a motorway, broken tent-zipsand, later, shared breastfeeding nightmares, fussy toddlers, and the same toddlers’tantrums. We celebrated marriages and postgraduate exam successes and supported eachother when our fathers died, remaining the very best of friends despite my move to Australia in 2016.  \nBut then came the phone call with the problem that we couldn’t fix, although we would both try.  \nA routine MRI of her spine had shown her to have widespread lymphadenopathy. Poring over blood-test and inconclusive CT results, we discussed possibilities, both desperate for an explanation that would silence the fear gnawing at us.  \n‘The haematologist said it’s almost definitely a lymphoma. But what do you think?’ she asked, the slightest waver in her voice.  \n‘It sounds ","cbCaijO0AZ8DoLph","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijO0AZ8DoLph","pdf",162410,"English","# The Fix\n## Beginnings and shared training\n## GP flourishing and fixing each other\n## The call that could not be fixed","[{\"question\":\"Who is Claire Denness in the story?\",\"answer\":\"Claire Denness is a medical professional with a background in general practice and medical education, and the narrator’s closest friend.\"},{\"question\":\"What events shape the friendship early on?\",\"answer\":\"They begin with shared postgraduate training in the same hospital, but their hospital medicine experience is difficult, leading them to grow closer later through GP training and education.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the major medical turning point described?\",\"answer\":\"A routine MRI reveals widespread lymphadenopathy, and later a Christmas Eve phone call delivers devastating news that ultimately contradicts earlier hopes of a curable lymphoma.\"}]","The Fix - Claire Denness | PDF"]