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For most of the pandemic, the threshold for what the country could tolerate was whether or not the NHS was “overwhelmed”. But as we emerge from a...
Last week I spoke to a young man who, for the first time in his life, had been driven to binge drink because of the deep depression he was...
I wrote recently about a “light at the end of the tunnel”, despite the constant challenges posed by an unrelenting second wave of coronavirus...
So much has happened since my last column that I don’t really know where to start. There is no doubt that we are currently in the midst of the worst...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that the NHS is currently in crisis mode. Ambulances are queuing up outside hospitals, swathes...
Two weeks ago, it looked as if we were finally turning a corner. A coronavirus vaccine had received regulatory approval for use in the UK and the NHS...
I’m sure many of you, like me, are basking in the good news that a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK and is...
It’s finally happened. After eight months of avoiding what was probably the inevitable, last week I woke up with a cough and sore throat. Two days...
There’s never a good time in a global pandemic to take a few weeks off from writing, but it’s fair to say that a lot has happened since my last...
As a doctor, you get used to friends and family asking you for ad hoc medical advice. “What’s this strange wart on my foot”; “Google says I...
I’ve just finished a set of night shifts and am sitting in my flat pretending that this third cup of coffee is going to flick a switch somewhere and...
It’s been a significant week in the timeline of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. The rate at which the virus is spreading has sped up, with the R...
On Monday evening I got back home from a 12 hour shift at hospital. I remember that earlier that day, our ward round break coincided with the joint...
We enter the autumn months with a stark warning that the threat of a second coronavirus surge continues to loom over us. On Sunday 2,988 new cases...
Over the last fortnight, my cycle to work has gone from being a leisurely commute in shorts and a t-shirt, to being drenched within the first thirty...
In a week’s time the UK will reach a significant milestone in the coronavirus pandemic: the reopening of its schools. All bar Scotland, that is,...
For the first time in a while, coronavirus hasn’t been the biggest news item this week. But this does not mean the pandemic is going away any time...