Winter 2017/18, just typing that makes me shudder a little. After over 10 years in Emergency Medicine I had never experienced the level of emotional, physical and professional exhaustion that I did on the night shift of 27th December 2017. That was the shift that broke me. The volume of patients and their acuity was making each shift harder and harder, and after morning handover on 28th December 2017 I broke down in tears and they wouldn’t stop. Thankfully my consultants