As the pandemic and then 1st lockdown started I should’ve been starting my PhD - I was so excited.
But of course, that was then not to be. NHSE requested us to return to clinical practice for obvious reasons and so I did. Gladly.
I couldn’t sit by and watch this…
I was redeployed to paediatric neurosurgery; the last clinical post I had just left as a registrar.
We were a small team, and if any of us got covid, it had the potential to wipe the entirety of the team out - a team responsible for providing a tertiary service to a large part
of the North West of England and North Wales.
I started working shifts 24 hours on/24 hours off. Some of those 24 hour shifts were ok. Many were not.
We of course weren’t caring for adult Covid patients like many of our colleagues in the region were, but the traumas,