With God in the storm, and after
It’s now over a year since the first lockdown, and as healthcare workers look at what has been and what is to come, they need prayer more than ever
There is no single narrative. Each person in healthcare has their own story to tell of what has happened in the past year. For some, critical moments in resuscitation loom large with the exhaustion of PPE-clad shifts. Others relive the incessant surge of sick patients, all needing attention simultaneously, with the sense of inadequacy to meet those needs.
But away from emergency and critical care other stories unfold. We remember patients, not just with COVID-19, fighting illness and disability on the wards, alone, struggling with imposed...
Clinicians have found their lives disrupted by the need to take on new roles and carry the anxiety of uncertainty about their competence. At the same time there has been the frustration of...
We have watched colleagues get sick and have realised we are vulnerable. We have seen their empty desks and wondered if they will return. Successive waves have revealed our susceptibility to...