Thread by @danielgoyal

Back on the frontline the damage caused by 'letting it rip' is all too apparent. "Broken" seems to be the word of the day - both for staff and NHS.
As the battle for the Omicron narrative begins, hearing the word 'coping' now stings a bit too much...'success' a swell of anger...

Lots of Covid today. New outpatient treatments (someone has to administer them); loads of patients not well, but with some effort can be managed at home; the inpatients, and the odd escalation to Level 2 care..
It's a lot of work in the middle of our usual brutal winter caseloads

Being on the senior medical team is tough. Lots of compromising, and spreading too little way too thinly. Sleepless nights and little left to give for the family. I feel for the patients more...although many don't realise. I feel also for the juniors and med students...

..a look of horror "did I choose the right path?". Not the environment to teach high quality care nor for retention of our brightest to the UK's health service. So many have one eye on the door...NZ, Auz, Canada, M.East...so many places where HCWs are respected, protected.

There is now little desire in asking the paramedics, GP, ED or Medical Teams what it's like. On our shoulders you walk to your 'freedom', and on the backs of the grieving families you dance...freedom taken from the disabled victims of poorly timed illness. Someone has to pay.

Hearing our voices or the voices of those affected will be inconvenient now. It need not matter that history has already recorded the countries who choose the suffering of others as a fair levy for profit and some form of ill-defined sense of liberty. Our voices too sore now.

The strength of character of so many patients, nurses (particularly nurses) and so many others lifts me...
But our voices need to be heard...we CANNOT allow the cunning story-tellers in their ivory towers to warp the truth to a more popular, soothing, fake narrative...

So, can I ask you to speak up? Can we hear your stories over the last month? Your long waits, your challenge in accessing care, your losses, your sacrifices...Let us hear it and share it and bookmark it so we remember, what it felt like, dying in a leadership vacuum...
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RT