‘The clap for the NHS meant nothing’: novelist turned doctor Roopa Farooki on her frontline experience of Covid

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When the writer retrained in medicine, she never imagined she’d be working through a pandemic. She describes how she has coped with the everyday tragedy by putting her experience into words

Photograph: Julian Anderson/The GuardianPhotograph: Julian Anderson/The Guardiann February 2020, when the novelist and doctor Roopa Farooki first sat down to write her latest book, coronavirus was “something that was kind of buzzing around” in the background. “Those of us going to work every day in a hospital, we weren’t really aware of it; we were just blindly doing our job, day by day, patient by patient. Knowing there was this thing happening, but it was insidious.

 

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SR49854261 The arrogance, it wasn't for them.

Same in Spain. 🤦‍♀️ Public health service is being systematically dismantled with no popular unrest. ☹️

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