We doctors have harnessed our anger with the #ImInWorkJeremy campaign, but we must continue to send a clear message to government about life in the NHS
It’s 8pm on a Monday evening and I’m exhausted. This morning, I finished a set of weekend night shifts as a registrar in neonatal intensive care, and I spent the rest of the day playing with my excitable one-year-old. It was his birthday on Saturday, but I couldn’t spend it with him. I had to spend it with other babies – babies in incubators, on ventilators and infusions, who needed my attention more than he did.
I know that I’m not alone in my exhaustion. All weekend, up and down the country, doctors of all grades were working day and night to take care of sick patients and help keep the NHS running. This is the case every weekend. This weekend, though, we were a bit more visible.
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