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• Heroic image of medical staff can cause harm | Letters

  18-10-2020 18:32
  
  The psychological impact of working as a doctor is often overlooked, writes Dr Sophie Behrman, and the talk of heroes exacerbates this problem, while Prof Andrew Cooper is concerned about the needs of exhausted social care staffCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageI was very pleased to read Clare Gerada’s article (‘Psychological PPE’ is what Britain’s health professionals urgently need now, 16 October). If the last wave was one in which doctor
  
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• I lent my mother my old phone. Now she’s read my text messages – and discovered untold secrets

  18-10-2020 16:00
  
  After a fall, my mother went to stay in a care home, and she was lonely at first. Then she discovered three years’ of text messages between me and my sister
  If you could call anywhere the canary in the coalmine of incompetence and chaos, it would be care homes. At the start of the coronavirus crisis, it was the health secretary, Matt Hancock, and his “protective ring”, which, in reality, meant insufficient testing, inadequate PPE and mass do-not-resuscitate orders because, come
  
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