The doctor will tell you a story now

It’s said that with great power comes great responsibility. In spring 2020, there’s no doubt that the professional power of doctors diminished as we contended with a novel virus that had no evidence based treatment. The medical workforce lost its usual sense of control. Despite this, our sense of responsibility was greater than ever as we cared for the rapidly increasing numbers of people becoming ill with covid-19. Alarmingly, we also found ourselves being asked to perform Orwellian “doublethink” when the government line so often did not match our experiences.I never imagined that three years later I’d be trying to recreate that time for a TV programme. Last year I was the lead medical adviser to ITV’s Breathtaking, a drama based on the pandemic memoir of palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke, and co-written with former doctors Jed Mercurio and Prasanna Puwanarajah. I started life as an anaesthetist but later trained…
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