Gande: I don't think that the medical profession and health care systems in general deal with death very well. During my sister's last few weeks, it felt like every question we asked and every concern we had was cind of all the response we got. We are not really trained in how to lose some one,. We're trained so well in how to in how to keep them with us. And i'm sure for people who choose to go into the other branch of medicine where they have to cut and manage it by day, i'm sure it's hard.
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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