Heart breaking moment in my tutorial today - this kid says “excuse me Dr Hunter, would you mind if I left 15 minutes early, my family has a zoom call with my granddad in hospital in India and I don’t want to miss it - he has covid”. I said of course - then I asked him if he

needed to talk about it with someone, “he looked up at me and said, “yeah kinda”. So while the groups were discussing the case I took him out into the hall and we had a quick chat - largely about the pressure he is under from his family as the one in medical training to “do

something, anything to save their granddad - and the horror that he knows enough to know that there is no hope”. Poor bloody kid, its horrid he has to carry that. I gave him a hug and told him to get in contact if he needs anything at all.