David Oliver: My personal pandemic experience is just one of many

I rarely write about my personal experiences, but practising medicine during the covid pandemic has finally given me the motivation. I’m just one of hundreds of thousands of clinical and care staff who have lived through it all, and my story is no more important than anyone else’s. But I’d still like to tell it.I came into the pandemic already tired from three decades as an NHS doctor working on big, busy hospital wards and the acute medical take, combining it all with many external national roles. Ideally, I wanted a break from medicine. I’d seen the reports from China, northern Italy, and the US about the impact of covid. By February 2020—when the chief executive of NHS England, the health secretary, and the chief medical officer were fielding stories from the press—I could see the writing on the wall, despite politicians’ desire to play down the scale of the…
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