After a second lockdown was announced in the UK in October 2020, Iain Beardsell spoke with Liz Crowe about coping with the months ahead. The conversation focuses on simple, practical ways to keep going through the continuing strain of the pandemic, whether working in healthcare or not.
A personal reflection of one Clinical Director of an Emergency Department, discussing the lure of leadership and some of its potential perils
Roberto Cosentini returns to reflect on staff wellbeing after the first COVID-19 surge in Bergamo. This July 2020 conversation explores routines, relationships, interests outside medicine and sharing experiences, drawing on his personal response to an exceptionally difficult period.
Journal ClubEvidence-Based Medicine
The 19 May 2020 COVID-19 journal club, available as a webinar and edited podcast, features Liz Crowe on grief, loss and communication. The reading list includes OpenSAFELY mortality risk factors, symptom tracking, airborne particles in hospitals and bereavement support.
Emergency Department Management
A personal reflection on privilege, social bias and the limits of one's own perspective. Drawing on experiences in medicine and South Africa, the author examines uncomfortable conversations, unconscious bias and the need to listen to colleagues whose opportunities and experiences have been different.
John Rogers and Nathan Lewis discuss what healthcare workers might learn from sport and exercise medicine about sleep, stress, exercise and nutrition. Recorded during the first COVID-19 wave, the conversation draws on athlete research while acknowledging the limits of applying it to pandemic staff health.
Practical perspectives on trauma care and team leadership.
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