Self-inflicted injury …

摘要

It's a Sunday afternoon in August. The sun is shining but I'm holed-up in a rural English A&E department treating people who have injured themselves ‘having fun in the Dales’. Bikers with broken legs, paragliders picked off pylons, horse riders who have gone head-over-heels, concussed climbers: they all get the treatment that they need. Inwardly, however, I'm resentful and have an inner dialogue along the lines of ‘What do you expect if you choose to do such foolish things?’