The Virus: When the doctors get sick
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What happens when doctors get coronavirus and how will the NHS cope? Manveen Rana speaks to two NHS doctors who've tested positive - and are about to return to work.
Guests:
- Dr Clare Gerada, NHS GP in London and former head of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
- Anonymous consultant anaesthetist, practicing at a hospital in England.
- Andrew Gregory, Health Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for calling NHS 111. Please press 9 to continue. |
| 0:09.0 | If you are calling about coronavirus, you do not need to let us know. There's a good chance you might have wrong and heard this message or something like it from the NHS in the last few weeks. |
| 0:19.3 | If you are calling because you have a cold or flu symptoms. |
| 0:23.0 | More than a million people have called 111 about coronavirus. |
| 0:27.0 | And, it turns out, some of them are doctors. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Mandvein Rana and this is stories of our times, a new daily podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:42.0 | Each day we'll be looking at one important. daily podcast from The Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:43.0 | Each day we'll be looking at one important story in death. |
| 0:47.7 | My work as a consultant anesthetist, a doctor, and eight days ago got diagnosed with coronavirus. |
| 0:54.0 | And this week there really is only one story in town. |
| 0:58.0 | Health officials have told me that they effectively concede, |
| 1:02.0 | we've failed to contain the virus in the UK. |
| 1:05.6 | On today's show, The virus part two. |
| 1:08.8 | What happens when the doctors get sick and how will the NHS cope? Hello? Is that Claire? |
| 1:25.0 | Hi. |
| 1:27.0 | Hi, it's Manveen. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello? |
| 1:30.0 | Thanks so much for doing this. |
| 1:31.0 | Fabulous. |
| 1:32.0 | I need to do something like a voice. Dr. Claire Gerada is an NHS GP in London. |
| 1:37.0 | She only lives a few minutes on the underground from the Times offices, but today I have to speak to Claire on the phone. |
| 1:43.0 | She's in isolation at home and she's tested positive for coronavirus. |
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