Bruce Wins Best Poster at International Brain Injury Conference

July 16, 2025

Episode 1 

FUBARBUNDY


Waking up in Intensive Care, “F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition But Not Dead Yet”, Dr Bruce Powell tries to make sense of what has happened.

Episode 2 

All Change


Becoming an optimist, starting to make some sense of the traumatic events of that September day.

Episode 3

Christmas Day in Intensive Care


Despite being an experienced Intensive Care doctor, it is hard to understand what has happened. Paranoia, confusion and euphoria make a complex cocktail.

Episode 4

Trauma Unit and the Great Escape


Despite being an experienced Intensive Care doctor, it is hard to understand what has happened. Paranoia, confusion and euphoria make a complex cocktail.

Episode 5 

Making Friends at the Rehab Hospital


When you’re a patient as well as a doctor, it can be tricky to tell which one you are supposed to be. Especially when life remains familiar and also deeply strange.

Episode 6

Back to Life – Back to Reality


Trauma is different for everyone. If you don’t really understand what happened, it isn’t especially distressing. Loved ones suffer in silence, back at the BnB.

Episode 7

Back Home


However confusing hospital can be, getting home and coming to terms with the time that has passed, is a new troubling challenge.

Episode 8

Insight can be a painful thing


Time passes slowly and the increasing realisation what has happened, is confronting and enlightening.

Episode 9

So What?


What does any of that mean? The end of the first season, and the start of something new. Coming to terms with our own realities.

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