I think that one of the hardest things as a health care professional, has at a clalition during the pandemic was the separation of family from their loved ones. And i felt that there were many moments stolen in many families lives when they should have been at their loved ones side during their last moments. So it's not really something i dealt with in the book, but i think my kind of anger towards the leadership,. towards those who were purporting to actually be guiding us in this situation, and their lack of due diligence is just shocking. I feel like we'd slipped into a distopian, kind of awellian world, a kind of autocracy where, yes, all
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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