i think what you did really well with the book was to express your anger and frustration with how things were run. But there's not just anger that exists in this book. For me, of course, there's this underlying poignancy that comes from the grief that you have experienced just as this global pandemic was unfolding. I can only imagine er how difficult it must have been to be a functioning human being, let alone a functioning doctor,. after losing one's sister to breast cancer.
Roopa Farooki is a doctor, author and creative-writing lecturer, whose new book, Everything Is True, tells the story of her first 40 days treating patients during the pandemic in the UK. She speaks with paediatrician and broadcaster Dr Guddi Singh about the reality of working in medicine during a global health crisis and the challenges of capturing the full scope of that experience in words on the page.
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