Dr. N

Eleanor, it is serious but nobody is hurt and nobody is likely to be hurt tonight. Some allied aircraft cannot fly because a computer service was switched off.

Go and look at your birds. I mean that kindly. There is nothing you can do about it before morning.

Deb, respectfully, three hours before that post, foreign soldiers sealed three airfields holding American nuclear weapons and the American airmen inside are on emergency power.

I am not trying to score a point off you. I genuinely need to know whether you know that, because if you do not, the problem is bigger than any of us arguing here.

154 prisoners and nine dead in six hours of close fighting.

I want to say something about the nine, but the number that has stopped me is 154. Those are 154 people who woke up on Sunday as allies of the men who captured them by lunchtime.

There is no medical word for what that does to a person. I have looked.

Six anxiety presentations tonight and it is not even eleven. Two panic attacks in the waiting room. One elderly gentleman convinced the missiles are coming here.

I told him they are not. I believe that. I checked twice before I said it, which is not something I have ever had to do before telling a patient he is safe.