Pandemic Stations: DR DOMINIC PIMENTA talks life on the NHS frontline

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Coronavirus has changed life as we know it, especially for those who work in our health service. Dr Dominic Pimenta resigned from the NHS over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip to Durham, and his new book ‘Duty of Care’, describes the brutal experience of working on the COVID-19 frontline. Dominic tells Alex Andreou about his work in the NHS during the pandemic, from the initial murmurings coming out of China to full-throated lockdown here in Britain. His story, along with many others in the NHS, is one of heroism and sacrifice. “Everyone was doing double time and taking on duty after duty.” “When needs must, the NHS was there.” “How do we get people to believe in the same facts?” “As a doctor, you’re not taught particularly well how to deal with your patient’s grief, or your own.” Presented by Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.6	I am your host, Alex Andreu.
1:19.8	There is of course value to big picture
1:22.9	retrospective when one emerges from a crisis. I found this when I
1:26.6	wrote up my investigation of COBRA meetings and daily press
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1:35.1	understanding the speed and heat of a moment for people who were in the middle of it.
1:40.7	My guest today is the author of Duty of Care, a searing read that seeks to
1:46.4	impart precisely that speed and heat of the coronavirus pandemic as it unfolded in the UK. An eminent cardiologist he hit the news
1:55.7	when he resigned over Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown rules and refusing to relinquish
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