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Stephen Fabes

Bled dry

The true cost of being a junior doctor

12 min readApr 15, 2023

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Bled dry

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Stephen Fabes

Waiting Room

As a doctor, I sometimes wonder if what I cherish most about the NHS can be found in one place in particular: The A&E waiting room. Here…

3 min readOct 14, 2020

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Stephen Fabes

How the pandemic will change the NHS and what that means for us

Speculations of an A&E doctor

7 min readMay 25, 2020

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How the pandemic will change the NHS and what that means for us

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Stephen Fabes

How to lose friends, write books and influence people

Wishing for words: A self help guide

3 min readApr 7, 2020

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How to lose friends, write books and influence people

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Stephen Fabes

Volcano boarding in Nicaragua

(originally published on CNN)

5 min readSep 19, 2018

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Volcano boarding in Nicaragua

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Stephen Fabes

Love Track

Are you into speed dating? No?

5 min readSep 18, 2018

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Stephen Fabes

Why adventurers should inspire, not motivate. The trouble with like hackery

Two weeks ago Sarah Outen returned from nearly half a decade of cycling and rowing around the world, half a decade of vigorously roughing…

10 min readSep 18, 2018

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Stephen Fabes

My mum loves Levison Wood

My mum loves Levison Wood.

4 min readSep 18, 2018

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Stephen Fabes

Spin, smears, staticide and grafting a scrotum onto Jeremy Hunt’s chin

Pondering the catalogue of cruel, ham-fisted assaults dealt my profession by the government is, I imagine, something close to what having a…

8 min readMar 17, 2016

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Stephen Fabes

Jeremy Hunt announces a 91 day week NHS

To reduce the death rate on weekends Jeremy Hunt has redefined a week as a period of 91 days. In each week there will be ninety Mondays and…

4 min readJan 19, 2016

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Jeremy Hunt announces a 91 day week NHS

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Stephen Fabes

Stephen Fabes

Doctor (acute medicine), runner, wanderer and storyteller. Author of ‘Signs of Life’ (Profile), Aug 2020. www.stephenfabes.com

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