Episode 10 - Dr. Sarah Platt - working in Intensive Care and self care during the coronavirus pandemic‪.‬ JACKed Radio

This week I spoke with one of my wonderful clients, Dr. Sarah Platt. I have had the pleasure of training Sarah for nearly 4 years now so it was fantastic to get her on the podcast to talk about what she does, especially considering the current circumstances. 



You don't really get much closer to the coal face of Coronavirus than working in Intensive Care right now, so I wanted to get Sarah's insight into what work has been like before, during the peak and where we are right now. I've found talking to Sarah nothing but reassuring through this entire thing (much like speaking with my mum and Julian, both previous guests on the podcast - it would seem that a lot of those in the NHS working against this share a view of both realism and pragmatism). 



We also spoke about what Sarah has been doing to take care of herself outside of work through this too. I think this would have been an interesting topic to speak about regardless of the current global environment, as Intensive Care by its very nature is...well....pretty intense from an outside perspective anyway. So given the fact that they've had an entirely new disease to deal with right now, this has come to the forefront of conversation even more. The contrast between working in full PPE gear compared to a quiet cup of tea was something I was really interested in speaking with Sarah about in this episode, so that's exactly what we did. 



Oh, and I forgot to mention...Sarah can also deadlift double her bodyweight for reps, knock out sets of 15+ press ups and has recently nailed chin ups too. Does your Anaesthetist even lift, bro? 



This was a fantastic listen for me, especially to hear how mindful Sarah has been about both her approach to work and self care and I think this is something a lot of us can get bags of value from. 



Enjoy.