A leading UK Intensive Care doctor says he's having counselling to deal with the aftermath of a year spent working on the frontline during the Covid pandemic, and predicts the NHS now faces a PTSD crisis. We were doing things with logic, thinking it may well work, but when it didn't, we were left thinking "what next?'" Strict restrictions on family and friends being allowed to visit patients meant that the emotional load was often carried by NHS staff, he says. 'In the hospitals, we saw the impact of them in ICU, the flattening would come within two weeks. Life Support: The Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis by Dr Jim Down, is out now

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2021 10:47 UTC