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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

Shakey shorthand might get you by, but empty bluster and targets won’t

Tell no one but I live in fear of exposure as an imposter and suspect the moment of my unmasking is nigh. The colloquial term for my approach to work is ‘winging it’ – always one chapter ahead in the textbook or, when in crisis, making it up. Now though, thanks to epitropes and homozygous splice junction mutations, my time is up. I’ll explain.

Nursing Standard. 17, 44, 20-20. doi: 10.7748/ns.17.44.20.s33

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