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Thread:I have a dear friend. Before I begin this thread you need to understand that. She's my friend. She works in a hospice, is a palliative care doctor. She has helped me so much, when my father was dying, giving me advice at the start of lockdown, for the care of my mother.
She's a mother, a daughter, a doctor who turned away from a life as a journalist, retrained to become a doctor, moved into palliative care and fights for the @NHS with heart and passion. She looks far too young to have lived all the life she's lived. She is also a writer.
I don't think she ever sleeps. She carries the care for each individual who has the good fortune to cross her path deep in her soul. She changes people's lives. And I was scared, so scared, when she became a palliative care doctor for people dying of Covid-19.
She challenged the government day after day on the lies about protective gear for front line workers. She looked at the scandal and wrote about care homes, called out the lies day after day, because she is still a journalist. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/30/this-man-knows-hes-dying-as-surely-as-i-do-a-doctors-dispatches-from-intensive-care
She's written a book. About her experience of the last few months. Breathtaking.
The torrent of abuse that has been poured onto her for this has indeed been breathtaking.
Rachel is a witness to the brilliance of the @NHS and contempt of our government
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/nhs-doctor-clarke-release-new-memoir-treating-covid-19-1212165
The torrent of abuse that has been poured onto her for this has indeed been breathtaking.
Rachel is a witness to the brilliance of the @NHS and contempt of our government
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/nhs-doctor-clarke-release-new-memoir-treating-covid-19-1212165
She has been accused of 'profiteering' from the dead.
Ok, now this is profiteering, using our taxes to pay your cronies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic
Ok, now this is profiteering, using our taxes to pay your cronies https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic
And this also: https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/something-more-than-a-bit-fishy-about-cummings-visiting-castle-barnard/
It is astonishing that Rachel has created this book with such speed. As I say, I don't think she sleeps. She was a spokeswoman for junior doctors in the recent struggles for better working conditions. She called out Jeremy Hunt and Hancock. She is an amazing professional woman.
Stay safe. See what is happening in Spain. NHS workers are so tired, traumatised by a weight of grief. Clapping isn't enough. Please heed their advice, not for your own sake, but for the lives of others, and for theirs. Don't follow our government's example. Wash your hands.
Breathtaking: Life and Death in the Time of Contagion.
A book for our times. An eye witness account of the results of poor governance. A target for misogynists. A testament to truth.
I feel proud to be able to call this woman my friend.
A book for our times. An eye witness account of the results of poor governance. A target for misogynists. A testament to truth.
I feel proud to be able to call this woman my friend.
