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MDU initiative sees foundation doctor members raise over £35,000 for the RMBF.

MDU initiative sees foundation doctor members raise over £35,000 for the RMBF.
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Long COVID sidelining doctors and putting careers at risk, says alarming BMJ study

Doctors grappling with long COVID face significant career setbacks and inadequate workplace protection, according to a recent BMJ study. Co-founded by a doctor who contracted long COVID, advocacy group Long COVID Doctors for Action pushes for better support and recognition of the condition as an occupational disease. ....

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Long covid: the doctors' lives destroyed by an illness they caught while doing their jobs

Unable to work or to play with their children, forced to sell their homes or facing insolvency doctors with long covid deserve more support from the government and the NHS, writes Adele Waters

When Kelly Fearnley first stepped on to a surgical ward as a doctor at Bradford Royal Infirmary in August 2020 her head was still buzzing with delight at having finally achieved her dream of qualifying in medicine.

As a mature student she had financed herself through a medical degree by working shifts as a pharmacy assistant. Now, aged 34, she was ready to get stuck into her foundation training.

Early months were spent dealing with emergency surgical patients but by autumn, as the second wave of covid-19 struck, the hospital opened several covid wards and she was deployed to work on one of them.

She remembers: “I walked onto the ward full of covid patients to find only plastic pinnies and flimsy blue surgical masks. I’d expected long sleeved surgical gowns and FFP ....

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Katie Melua reveals the psychiatrist who treated her for years following her 2010 psychotic breakdown took his own life after 'falling under the same illness'

The hunky-voiced singer - who made her name aged 19 in 2003 with her debut single The Closest Thing To Crazy - revealed how she has decided to do something special in his honour ....

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