Liverpool Calls In Volunteer Student Doctors
BBC Breakfast has just run a report about how student doctors at Liverpool University are going to be used to help out in local hospitals.
According to the BBC report, two hundred students have volunteered.
The BBC also interviewed a senior Professor, who was very happy about it all.
I suspect other medical schools will volunteer and there are reports, that Cambridge already has, but I do think that this is the way to get better doctors.
A Personal Story
A few years ago, I was in a teaching hospital after suffering a collapse.
A senior tutor approached me and asked, if I would mind, if I was used for interview practice by final year students.
I hope the students benefited as much as I did, whilst they sorted out what was wrong with me!
Conclusion
We should look upon COVID-19, as something that will make us all better people and doctors.
Is COVID-19 for my generation and those younger than myself, our Second World War?
The Anonymous Widower 
I completely agree. As long as the students are properly briefed about the patients. When I was in my local hospital, a newly qualified doctor was sent to give me information from a scan report. She believed that the result was very bad news, and that I would be devastated. Because she hadn’t been told that I have leukaemia. I already knew that I had the signs she told me about. I felt sorry for her.
Comment by nosnikrapzil | March 18, 2020 |