>> There is a fundamental difference....
Indeed - I'm not privy to the guidelines followed by ICU consultants in managing their units. I suspect a "freedom of information" request for such would be kicked into the long grass until after the pandemic has receded.
Nothing normal about the impact of Covid in ICU - even the worst Flu years don't come close to the devastation (at least in my memory - wasn't here in 1968/69).
General practice has come through relatively unscathed compared to some hospital units and their staff.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56472115
"There have been times when I've come home and had a good cry, because we have witnessed so much… we're at the patient's bedside 12 hours a day and they haven't had that usual psychological support from their families.
"So we've been there… and got to know them as people, their likes and dislikes, their dreams; and then they've become really unwell and been placed on ventilators and quite often they haven't got through that.
"And that's been difficult because personally I've felt a bond to my patients, and to witness them not progress as we would wish, that's been really hard."
She has now described seeing coronavirus patients die as a "burden" she has to bear. In normal times, she might lose a patient in intensive care once every two weeks, but during the pandemic several were dying every day.
In the last wave over winter, she said more died than survived.
"I was once working in a pod where there were four patients with Covid," she said.
"I left my shift at 20:00 in the evening. When I returned the next day all the patients had died, and were replaced with different people… although it's hard bearing this burden, you don't become desensitised - if you do, it's time to give up the profession."
"1% is all we can afford" yet we can buy more Trident we'll never use.
The PM really is a complete dick.
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