On the Ward

The LRB Podcast

London Review of Books

Society & Culture

4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Lana Spawls talks to Thomas Jones about working on a paediatric ward during the Covid-19 pandemic, and the ways hospitals have changed in response to the virus. Read Lana's latest piece in the LRB: Lana Spawls: How to set up an ICU Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the LRB podcast. If you subscribe to the LRB, you can get the first 12 issues for just £12. To find out more, go to lrb.me.
0:10.8	forward slash listen. That's LRB.m.m.m. forward slash listen.
0:17.2	Hello and welcome to the London Review of Books podcast. My name is Thomas Jones. It's Tuesday
0:22.7	the 14th of April. At the weekend, I spoke with Lana Spalls, who's a paediatrician in London.
0:28.5	Lana wrote her first piece for the LRB, a diary about what a junior doctor does, in 2016.
0:34.5	Her piece in the current issue describes how to set up an intensive care unit.
0:39.1	She talked to me on Saturday morning, between shifts. She was back at work on Sunday evening
0:42.9	about the ways hospitals have changed in response to COVID-19.
0:47.7	Hello, Lana. Thank you for joining us.
0:50.0	Hi.
0:50.6	Hi. So in your piece in the current issue of the other, but you describe what it takes to set up an ICU, an intensive care unit.
1:01.2	But you're not actually working in ICU yourself.
1:05.9	Is that right?
1:06.3	Because you're a paediatrician, so you're still working on a pediatric ward?
1:11.1	Yes, I am.
1:12.6	Many of my colleagues have been moved over to the adult side to look after patients with COVID.
1:19.1	I'm not one of them myself, but there has been a lot of reshuffling within the hospital
1:23.4	to kind of move people from areas that are less busy to areas that are more busy.
1:28.0	So that includes moving people, doctors out of paediatrics and also out of kind of community
1:33.8	services and things like dermatology or allergy clinics that aren't running at the moment.
1:40.4	They've all kind of been pulled into the hospital to treat all the adult patients with COVID.
1:45.1	But you're not because you work with newborns.
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