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Collection No. 02

The Week, Accounted For

One hundred and sixty-eight hours, as doctors actually spend them.

2 pieces in preparationOne week every month.

From the editors

Ask a doctor how they spend their week and you will hear the rota. Ask them to write it down, hour by hour, and a different picture appears: the commute, the charting at home, the hour lost to a phone, the evening that went better than expected.

Each piece in this collection is one real week, logged as it happened by the doctor who lived it, charted, and printed as kept. No ideal weeks, no routines to copy. Just an honest look at where the time goes.

In this collection

  1. In preparationTime

    The week, accounted for: a surgical resident

    One ordinary week, all 168 hours of it, logged as it happened and printed as kept.

    A paper diary open on a hospital locker shelf, hours pencilled in by hand.
  2. In preparationTime

    The week, accounted for: a family physician who works four days

    What the fifth day became, and what it cost.

Contribute to The Week, Accounted For

Willing to log one ordinary week for us? Every specialty and stage is welcome, including students. We will send a simple log sheet, and you approve the piece before it runs.

Offer a week

Collection No. 01

Off Rota

What doctors do with the hours that belong to them.

2 of 5 pieces published

Collection No. 03

Uncommon Practice

Doctors whose lives took a shape nobody planned for them.

2 pieces in preparation

Collection No. 04

A Working Knowledge

Short guides to things worth knowing well, written by doctors who do.

3 pieces in preparation

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