Night fever
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Night fever

Cheryl Padilla-Harris Staff nurse, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire

When cheryl Padilla-Harris came to the UK she thought she was well prepared - but the night was full of terrors in this foreign field

As I strained my ears and brain to make sense of the morning report I asked myself: 'Are they speaking English?' I could only comprehend a few isolated words throughout the entire narrative - they might just as well have been speaking Martian.

Nursing Standard. 16, 5, 23-23. doi: 10.7748/ns.16.5.23.s41

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