'We sorted him a pint of Guinness before he died' - heartbreak and burnout in critical care

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direct to your inbox“It’s just utterly demoralising,” says Dr Shondipon Laha of the commute to a shift caring for critically ill Covid patients. “You drive to work and watch the people walking around and think: 'What’s going on?'“It’s like two different worlds.”Dr Laha, honorary secretary of the Intensive Care Society and a critical care consultant practicing in the North West, fears the truth of what is playing out on wards here may not have hit home to some on the outside.But for those who work in them, the reality of the virus is impossible to escape.Sweating in PPE, doctors and nurses are combating not only Covid-19 itself, but the heat, exhaustion and claustrophobia that make their jobs immeasurably harder.Theirs are also the last.