Christmas bells are ringing! It's a day that comes for all those who work shifts: your first holiday season at work.
How can you bring a little festive cheer to the ward? We hear from some clinicians about their working Christmases and discuss how you can make the most of the holiday period in the hospital, as we try to convince Declan that working Christmas Day might not be as bad as he thinks...
Our expert guests and contributors:
Jo Talbot Bowen is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist with a special interest in stress in clinicians.
Sally El-Ghazali is an anaesthetics trainee who has actually chosen to work over Christmas in the past!
Rahul Pankhania is a surgical trainee whose Christmas day on the ward was once saved by a gift of a mince pie...