Doctors In Distress Blogs
An Interview with Emma Dillon
Interview Blog with Emma Dillon, participant of our Nurses and Allied Healthcare Workers Long COVID Support Group After participating in our nurses...
A Cardiologist Seeks Certainty by Denise Bundred
A Cardiologist Seeks Certainty by Denise Bundred Expressive Writing Group Participant, published by The Hippocrates Press 2016. I spread cold gel on...
Bird 1 by Mary McGee Jolliffe – Support Group Facilitator
Bird 1 The bird is waiting. The bird must fly, it’s the time, soon, of change. A change of time and pattern. The next year, as the Sun moves North,...
‘Real Life Cognitive Dysfunction’ by Kerry
"Hi I’m Kerry. I’m 44, Pre Covid I was as fit as a fiddle, ran 3 times a week, I’m a nurse, a mum of two, active and healthy. I started displaying...
The PJ Pod: ‘Pharmacy’s Mental Health Crisis – Building Back Better Post-Pandemic’
The PJ Pod has a new episode, ‘Pharmacy’s mental health crisis: building back better post-pandemic’ featuring our Chair, Dame Clare Gerada.
Surviving COVID: The Impact of the Pandemic on the Mental Health of NHS Workers
The Health Foundation supported a Channel 4 documentary, Surviving COVID, to enhance understanding of the impact of the pandemic. This series of...
A Poetic Take On The Transmission Of Hope, When Hope Seems To Have Gone by Mary McGee Jolliffe, Group Facilitator
A fragment from a recent conversation with a frontline worker, ‘…I just feel unable to come out of shielding…. I don’t think I’m ever going to feel...
‘A Song Of Silence’ by Dr Ananta Dave
‘A song of silence’ a poem by Dr Ananta Dave… ‘Around me, between the dialling of 999 and the hoarse, laboured breaths, The blare of a siren And the...
Tales Of Grief & Love – Oceans Deep, Countries Apart by Dr Ananta Dave
When I was growing up in India as a teenager in 1980s Mumbai (Bombay as it was called then), a ghazal (a form of rhyming love poetry) sung by the...