The author managed to convey every single feeling as it was meant to be. Right down to the feel of being inside the PPE and the harsh imprint of the mask digging into skin. Very well-written book which takes you right into her world as a standing spectator to every single scene. Not many can manage to do that.
I read the figure of more than 600 medical and social care workers with horror. More than 600. Especially with the added information that many of whom had actually begged for proper PPE beforehand. They were all horrendously let down by the government. They all were. As was everyone else who the government decided to sacrifice whether through covid or by denying them their cancer treatments and so on.
I still wonder how so many people in the general public could have chosen to carry on as normal despite it being plainly obvious what was happening. The government, again, played an enormous part in that and you can see the huge events that they allowed to occur as yet more proof of that. The amount of lives that would/could have been saved if lockdown had happened a week earlier as admitted.
The author is definitely one of the rather rare and wonderful medical professionals who happen to care about their patients enormously. (Which is very refreshing to know particularly when one has encountered so many of the opposite types of doctors.) She sacrificed so much and I am sure that the pain and guilt that she feels will be there inside no matter what as she was in an impossible situation when it came to her work caring for patients and her family and wanting to protect them. I would say that each one of her patients were extremely lucky to have had her as a doctor as are her family to have her as a beloved member.
I cannot imagine being in the medical profession and knowing what was about to happen and realising, at the same time, that the NHS was unprepared for such a thing. That there were enormous supply issues. Then to have the government blatantly lying on a regular basis about that would have been horrifying.
I am tempted to keep on rambling here as have so many thoughts about this subject but I don't want to go on and on anymore. Thank you so much for everything that you did ~ the fact that you ensured that you treated each and every patient with kindness and respect is something that they needed more than anything in that moment. You did so much. Thank you for having shared your thoughts and feelings with us all.
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