Ruper: 'I started it off really for myself. It was only towards the end of the writing when i began to wonder whether it would be help, and whether it was something that perhaps might be shared' She says she is still nervous about her book being out in the world. But as well as putting herself in this inno, centred in this book, also knows that it is a book atully writtenReally for colleagues and for patients and for all those who canove you know, like yourself, whos who were on this journey. So thank you for saying that it was useful, because that's actually all i really wanted it to be.
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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