Tales from the Front Line: Centenarians

Not all interventions are that bad.

“She just collapsed this morning,” the nurse reports.

“How is she now,” I ask.

“She appears to have recovered."

I check the medical notes and pause at her date of birth - 1918.

As per the 2022 report by the ONS, the number of people aged 100 or over, also known as centenarians, in England and Wales has reached a record high of 15,120.  This number is the la…