A paediatric surgeon has found himself juggling junior doctor duties as medics pull together to fight Covid-19. Ross Craigie usually spends his days operating at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, specialising in cancer patients.
But Mr Craigie has had to juggle his duties as a paediatric surgical consultant with some of the tasks he used to carry out as junior doctors are moved to the frontline to battle the virus.
Mr Craigie says the changes have afforded him the opportunity to interact more with patients. “Every doctor has generic skills that can be used anywhere,” he explains. “The surgical juniors are really good at intravenous access - so putting catheters in patients’ blood vessels and things like that.
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