PSYCH 155: Psychiatric Care of Burn Patients
from survival towards recovery.
Medlock Holmes enters The House of Fire and Recovery.
At the entrance stands a patient whose burns have been dressed, whose vital signs have stabilised and whose surgeons are cautiously optimistic.
The immediate danger has passed.
Yet the patient cannot sleep.
Every time they close their eyes, they see the flames.
They recoil when a nurse approaches to change a dressing.
They are frightened of looking in the mirror.
And when their family arrives, they turn their face away.
Holmes realises that the medical team is treating one injury while another dimension of…
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