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How has the pandemic affected your specialty? What have been the main challenges?
It has made us all quite tired and sometimes emotional if I am honest. I was asked to write an article for the Telegraph recently, and one patient’s experience in particular kept coming back to me, which I think I will never forget. The challenge of not having visitors and family by the bedside has been enormous.
I remember at the start of the pandemic through my work with the European Association for Palliative Care I saw what was happening in other countries like Italy and Spain and that was quite frightening. A few colleagues, including Simon Tavabie, wrote an article about this time of preparation, entitled Waiting for the storm, which felt like a very apt description.