Genre: Weird fiction

Setting: UK, present day

Query: I need a clinical psychiatric diagnosis for a person presenting as follows; recurring nightmares of falling causing interrupted sleep, the fear that he isn’t real but might be someone else’s dream, extreme sleep deprivation, night terrors. The individual is terrified of falling asleep, and has ( Read more... )

Hiya. I am writing a fic where my main character has pneumonia and could do with some help on a few technicalities. It is set in Oxford,U.K, in the not too distant future. About 30yrs. I'm aware that things could have changed by then but I'd like to get an idea of what it's like now to build on ( Read more... )

I have a character who graduated from medical school (England, probably Oxford) around 1997/98/99 and goes on to become a general surgeon. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any detailed information about what that entailed before Modernising Medical Careers came along in 2003/2005 ( Read more... )

I have three completely unrelated questions for fanfiction purposes that I hope someone can give me an answer to :)

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Hello, everyone! First of all I'm so grateful to find this amazing, rich source of information. This is my first post here so I hope I'm doing this right

I'm writing a story, the events set in a fictional but pretty much similar to 1990s London. My character "J" is a healthy, medium built 30 years old male, J gets shot with a poisoned bullet that ( Read more... )

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(story is set in the 1980s in the UK, but information about current-day UK practice would also be welcome ( Read more... )

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Story Setting: Modern Day London

Details: My character’s family member bitten on the right forearm by an animal. The bite is very deep and went to the bone. The plan is that the wound later causes her to die due to sepsis (blood poisoning).

What I'm Looking For:
·       I assumed a wound like this would require surgery and maybe a hospital stay ( Read more... )

+ a few un-google-able details I really need an expert opinion on (Any virologists in the house ( Read more... )