The case has become a lightning rod for a profession at breaking point. Many of us are working on critically understaffed rotas and in overstretched departments, with an increasingly unmanageable workload. On the day Jack died, Dr Bawa-Garba was doing the job of four doctors; covering six wards, across four floors, responding to numerous paediatric emergencies, whilst supervising two junior doctors new to paediatrics, without a functioning IT system, when just returning from 14 months of maternity leave. And all in the absence of the consultant who should have been on site.
The case has become a lightning rod for a profession at breaking point. Many of us are working on critically understaffed rotas and in overstretched departments, with an increasingly unmanageable workload. On the day Jack died, Dr Bawa-Garba was doing the job of four doctors; covering six wards, across four floors, responding to numerous paediatric emergencies, whilst supervising two junior doctors new to paediatrics, without a functioning IT system, when just returning from 14 months of maternity leave. And all in the absence of the consultant who should have been on site.
The case has become a lightning rod for a profession at breaking point. Many of us are working on critically understaffed rotas and in overstretched departments, with an increasingly unmanageable workload. On the day Jack died, Dr Bawa-Garba was doing the job of four doctors; covering six wards, across four floors, responding to numerous paediatric emergencies, whilst supervising two junior doctors new to paediatrics, without a functioning IT system, when just returning from 14 months of maternity leave. And all in the absence of the consultant who should have been on site.
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