Working in intensive care in a London hospital, I struggled to cope. But colleagues showed me some remarkable truths
I was eight months into my career as a doctor when the first wave of Covid-19 hit London and the hospital where I work.
Before this time, as a medic, I felt powerful – not as an individual, but as one part of a formidable system. There were times when I observed my team and saw how together we seemed to acquire a superhuman mightiness. We could see your past (medical history), and use algorithms to predict the future. We had X-ray vision (and MRI, and PET, and CT). Together we could perform near miraculous feats, from transplanting hearts to dissolving pain.
