Nurse!Phan Masterlist
Links Last Checked: April 23rd, 2025
All the Sinners Crawl (ao3) - TheOceanIsMyInkwell
Summary: The clock is ticking for Dan Howell, who has had a terminal illness for the past eight years. Everyone tells him it’s a miracle he’s made it to the age of 25. Maybe that miracle just might be Phil Lester, the mysterious nurse who happens to be a fallen angel, cast out of heaven and destined to wander the earth unaligned for eternity. The only problem? Dan’s name has already been written down for heaven--and Phil is bound for hell if he heals him.
A Story During War Time (ao3) - morephan
Summary: Dan, unknowingly to his family, despises war. He wanted a life, a family of his own, but being drafted into the second world war, Dan realizes, may not lead to his life having a happy ending. He befriends his nurse, Phil, and they hit it off almost immediately. Dan begins to think that maybe, just maybe, he has a shot at a happy ending.
Black And White (And Screaming Color) (ao3) - lucipherer (mysticstargirl)
Summary: the one where Dan is a teenager admitted to the hospital after his lung cancer hits a particularly nasty bump, and he hates it- but a beaming, beautiful, bright-eyed nurse named Phil Lester makes everything a bit better.
Dan is shades and layers of grey-black-white, but Phil is screaming color. The world is printer ink on cheap paper, Dan is thick, messy acrylic paint on rough paper, and Phil is pastel, watercolor stains on hot pressed canvas.
Everything fades with time, even masterpieces.
Code Black (ao3) - starboydjh
Summary: “Code black: An influx of patients so great, there aren’t enough resources to treat them. The average A&E is in code black 5 times per year. St. Thomas’ Memorial Hospital in London is in code black 300 times per year.” Doctors Dan Howell and Phil Lester know all too well that when everything in the busiest accident and emergency department in England and their personal lives goes right, the most incredible of miracles can happen. After Dan bares the struggles of his past to Phil, a member of Dan’s distant and troubled family shows up as a patient in their A&E one night after years of silence, and life starts to feel like one long code black night in more ways than one.
Doctors Not Only Heal Physical Wounds - irphanfic
Summary: Dr. Dan Howell, the dreamiest doctor of the hospital is charming, attractive and has a motorbike, all Dr. Phil Lester wanted in a a partner. After a big scare makes them both connect as more than co-workers, how will they manage to develop their new friendship?
grey's (ph)anatomy (ao3) - dizzy
Summary: Understanding Dan was the beginning of the end, as far as Phil's concerned, but he doesn't mind too much where he ended up.
I Have Better - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan had been in another relationship with a guy and gotten pregnant. The guy dumps Dan for being pregnant and a “freak.” Phil meets Dan at the hospital, being his nurse, and doesn’t care that Dan’s pregnant and they slowly fall in love. Dan has nightmares and Phil comforts him.
Piecing Together My Mind - paradisobound
Summary: When Dan is the victim of a terrible car accident, he suffers unbelievable trauma to his brain. As a result, only a few doctors in the world can perform the operation that is needed for him to recover: one the doctors being Phil Lester from America. Through the surgery and his recovery, Phil is there for him every step of the way, leading them into a spiral of love no one can predict, which eventually gains attention and popularity through a book written by Dan.
Pills And Daffodils (wattpad) - howellyoudoing
Summary: 17 year old Dan Howell feels as he has nothing to live for. He is constantly bullied at school for being pansexual and 99℅ of his family are homophobic assholes. Sooner or later, he finds himself at the psychiatric ward at the local hospital due to an overdose.
Phil Lester is a nurse at this hospital and notices Dan when he is brought in on a bright yellow gurney. Instantly, Phil fell in love. He decides to leave a little pink sticky note and a daffodil one night on Dan’s bedside table; an action that will change their lives forever.
Romantic Proposal - doomedhowell
Summary: Dan and Phil are nurses at the hospital, and everybody who works with them ship them as a couple even though they don’t know that they’re actually together. One night, Dan proposes to Phil and their friends at the hospital finally learn that their dating each other.
Scrubs (ao3) - watergator
Summary: Surgical nurse Phoebe Lester is run off her feet and feeling out of her depth when she starts her new job. But it soon seems she may not be the only one feeling this way when she meets new surgeon, Diana Howell
The Hardest Part Of This (Is Leaving You) (ao3) - galactichan
Summary: Dan Howell is dying. He has terminal cancer, and is living out his last few months in a hospice care facility. But, when he starts a relationship and falls in love with his hospice nurse, Phil, it becomes all too hard to say goodbye.
The Light (ao3) - alphapavlikovsky (orphan_account)
Summary: Dan is studying to become a nurse at university which means he is required to do two weeks every semester at a work placement. Dan has been sent to Honey-Oake Mental Hospital for patients who have mental health conditions and can't look after themselves. Here, he makes some life long friends and even reunites with a friend of his who he thought had died years ago.
