'Merry Christmas, Ali. Try not to kill anyone.' With these words, my consultant breezily hung up the phone, leaving me to handle an entire ward of patients alone. I was newly qualified junior doctor, and three weeks previously I'd made a rookie error: forgetting to fill out a form to request the holidays off. Now, here I was, managing hospital ward, on my own, on Christmas Day. Things had started badly and rapidly got worse. When I arrived at the hospital, I was met by an avalanche of patient histories, diagnostic reports and cryptic scan requests that would've made more sense to a seasoned archaeologist than our on-call radiologist. Within minutes, I was confronted by the day's first emergency: a man in his fifties who had collapsed from a severe cardiac arrest. And then one of the nurses informed me that a patient urgently needed a manual evacuation (if you know, you know). At 10:30am, I looked around the ward. Nurse Janice was sprinting up and down corridor A in a panic, her arms overflowing with IV drips and medication charts. On corridor B, a stubborn elderly patient was loudly demanding his misplaced dentures. Corridor C had been taken over by drunken exile from the emergency department, wandering the corridor and shouting 'Olive! Olive!' (I never learned who Olive was.) And every minute, somebody was making a new demand: 'Dr Ali, can you check on Mrs Johnson's fever?' 'Dr Ali, can you help with Mr Singh's elevated potassium?' I soon found myself starting to panic. Medical school hadn't prepared me for anything like this. Until then, I'd always been quite an effective student. Whenever the going got tough, my strategy was simple: work harder. It was a method that had got me into medical school seven years previously. It had allowed me to secure a handful of publications in academic journals. It had even allowed me to launch a business while I studied. Discipline was the only productivity system I knew. And it worked. Credit and Disclaimer The text provided here is an excerpt from Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal, used solely for the purpose of typing practice. This content is shared with the intent to help individuals improve their typing skills while exploring the engaging ideas presented in the book. We encourage everyone to support the author by purchasing the book if you find the practice content valuable. You can buy Feel Good Productivity online through official retailers or Ali Abdaal's website. This practice exercise is not intended to infringe on copyrights or replace the need to purchase the book. All rights to the text remain with the author and publisher. Thankyou!