Reflecting on a crisis

Previous Doctor Informed episodes have discussed how to prevent patient safety issues from occurring, but sometimes situations are beyond anyone's control - like covid. Hhow should individual doctors, and the hospital system, respond to those crises? Especially when it can be hard to look back at things we know have gone wrong, and could be critical of the way we responded. In this episode, we're joined by Annelieke Dresden, a medical anthropologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who has spent hours listening to patient experiences of ICU during the covid pandemic. We'll also be hearing from Dominque Allwood, medical director at UCL Partners, and Deputy Director of Strategy and Improvement at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and asking; are doctors always the right ones to be leading on changing things in healthcare? The research Annelieke Drissen discussed, and the full versions of the patient interviews in the podcast are available at https://healthtalk.org/Experiences-of-Covid-19-and-Intensive-Care/overview