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When I ask if they're ok, about half of nurses and doctors casually describe ptsd-ish symptoms to me (insomnia, anger, distress, intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, sleeping pills)
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When I ask if they're ok, about half of nurses and doctors casually describe ptsd-ish symptoms to me (insomnia, anger, distress, intrusive thoughts, panic attacks, sleeping pills)
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Trying to tell F1 doctors who have never experienced medicine without covid that yes recent nhs winters have been awful understaffed overworked underresourced etc etc, but this VOLUME OF PEOPLE didn't use to die, shift after shift, they look at me and say, "really?"
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When I was an F1 doctor it would generally be a senior doctor's job to call a family, if you had to tell relatives someone was dying, that there was nothing more we could do but we would give them comfort medications. My juniors are doing this up to 5-6 times in a shift
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At the end of their shift, as I arrive, one of the night doctors tells me that nine patients died overnight and they can't face going to handover, can they just go home now
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Everyone is best mates with the medical examiners officer because we are going to do death certificates so frequently.
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The best thing I did last week was take 5 mins to dash and buy a cake for my patient because he'd been admitted to hospital on his birthday. We sang him happy birthday (masked & distanced). He was 93 and looked so chuffed.
He's not got covid. I hope he'll go home.
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He's not got covid. I hope he'll go home.
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