Doctors are under tremendous strain in these times of COVID 19. We have seen the incredible dedication, great leadership, and even true bravery of healthcare professionals working long hours, sometimes even without adequate Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) as they continued to administer to the sick and comfort the distressed and dying during the first wave of this Pandemic. We have also seen increasing levels of stress amongst the healthcare fraternity, some understandably associated with worries about taking the virus back to the loved ones and family, some associated with the hours of overwork and some associated with the undoubted heightened emotions of working under considerable strain.
If we had the opportunity to restart the clock and go back to the beginning of 2020, is there anything else we could have done to make the lot of the doctors better that it turned out? Having…