When we get through covid-19, and rest assured we will, these Intensive Care Unit (ICU) doctors, will march lockstep with others and argue for more beds, staff, and kit. We […]
Month: April 2020
The urgent need to transfer vulnerable migrants from Europe’s largest migrant hotspot
Jacqueline Bhabha and Vasileia Digidiki discuss the current covid-19 situation in Greece, the migrant hotspot Greek islands, and what the EU should be doing to help the crisis. […]
Covid-19 highlights the long standing contribution that ethnic minority doctors have made to the NHS
Healthcare workers from ethnic minorities have long contributed to the NHS. It is time to recognise this, say Paramjit Gill and Kiran Patel Doctors from ethnic minorities have been supporting […]
Is there a role for Fangcang hospitals in the UK?
As the outbreak of covid-19 developed in Wuhan and the number of people infected grew, health authorities realised that failure of home isolation was fuelling the epidemic: over half of […]
Covid-19 and sub-Saharan Africa’s critical care infrastructure
The ICU capacity that is critical to managing covid-19 complications is severely limited in much of the region, warn Edgar Asiimwe and Saraswati Kache […]
Agnes Arnold Forster: Has covid put practitioners back in touch with their reasons for becoming healthcare professionals?
For the last couple of years, I have been interviewing British surgeons about their emotions, professional identities, and working lives. For the last couple of weeks, a new question has […]
Living in a nation with covid-19: a perspective from South Korea
I am a neurologist working at a university hospital in Goyang, a city in South Korea that is located on the outskirts of Seoul. Seoul is the most densely populated […]
Seamus O’Mahony: Mourning our dead in the covid pandemic
I came back to Ireland in 2001, after working for fourteen years in the NHS. I had underestimated the re-acclimatisation involved in this move. The most striking cultural difference between […]
Renee N. Salas: Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic provide a blueprint for the climate emergency
Two essential clinical principles have guided my practice as an emergency medicine doctor. First, I must use whatever information is available to predict and prepare for my patient’s next potential […]
Jonathan Cohen: Covid-19 and the power of public health
We all crave the moment when the spotlight swivels towards our line of work, when the professional expertise we’ve been amassing over years in obscurity becomes the stuff everyone hangs […]