David Oliver: The overwhelming reaction to my personal covid story

I recently used this platform to describe my personal experiences of working on covid wards through the pandemic, my own subsequent illness as a result of covid, and my decision to withdraw from the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians.1 In the seven years that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve never had anything like the reaction that this one provoked. It wasn’t just the metrics on page views, downloads, or social media shares but also the volume of private direct messages, emails, and letters I received.I’m still very sad about my withdrawal from a role I’d worked hard to be elected to and was looking forward to. It’s left a big hole in my plans for my late career. I’m still not sure when I’ll be declared fit enough to go back to my clinical work. And I’m still worried that, when I do go back, those feelings…
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