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we were able to hold a joint symposium with World Extreme Medicine at the Hall. This was an excellent and engaging event called “Human Factors in Extreme Medicine”. A subject being talked about more and more within the medical profession during our day jobs but we wanted to explore it in the context of Medicine in austere environments. We had some amazing contributions on the academic as well as the practical aspects of this topic. Speakers included: Tracey Herlihey from Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch; Ben Watts, a senior paramedic and experienced Expedition Medic; Emily Meyhew, Imperial Lead, Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership; Sqn Ldr Jonny Hynes, talked about Human Factors in Military Aviation; Kirsten Amit from FMLM talked about Leadership; A trainee doctor, Matthew Walton and David Wightwick CEO of UKMED. This day highlighted the need for our organisation to continue to flourish and give our members a chance to explore topics such as this and inspire further research. I thank all those who attended and helped organised this event. I would like to finish my report by thanking the outstanding work of our Faculty Manager, Goldy Gullo. She has surpassed herself with her determination to keep the wheels turning during all that has happened this year, she has confronted all the challenges with professionalism and grace and has been an incredible support to me as I had to also face a good deal of uncertainty and challenges in my day job as an Emergency Medicine Doctor. She has even managed to continue her work whilst in lockdown on a television set! We are very fortunate to have her and she is an invaluable member of our team. I also wish to thank Maria Ferran, our Sister Faculty’s Manager, the Master and the Court for their continued support, as well as our new Registrar, Cornelius O’Boyle for continuing the good work that Jim Benson started to create a more cohesive Academic Department. I wish you all a safe and enriching 2021 where we will be able to continue to learn new skills as we have had to during this past year. Dr Christina Dale MBBS FRCEM President, Faculty of Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine 37
Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine Student Essay Prize 2020 We are very pleased to announce a new Essay Prize which will be awarded to one of our current students of the Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine Course and will be published in the Apothecary Journal annually. This year we asked students to submit an essay which would demonstrate the impact of the Pandemic on healthcare workers. The Apothecary Editorial Committee were impressed with the essays submitted and there was a healthy discussion during the adjudication. The Essay Prize has been awarded to Safia Akhtar for her very heartfelt piece on her experiences during the pandemic. The reason that this Essay was chosen is that it documents some of the most striking aspects of the UK’s healthcare response to COVID19; it mentions how GP Practices were assessing patients in their car parks, Nightingale Hospitals as well as the realities faced by those that worked in hospitals such as the isolation faced by those dying without their relatives by their side, the physical consequences of proning patients and the various ways that the medical profession desperately try to maximise oxygenation when this new virus consumed the lungs of those afflicted. It also records the fact that so many seemed to be ethnic middle aged men who were some of the sickest in hospital which will, no doubt, be the subject of research in the future. It increases awareness on the moral injury faced by those making the difficult decisions when faced with a brand new virus and limited resource. On a happier, note it reveals how far we have come over the last nine months and we now have very real advances that have changed the management of these patients. We believe that future Apothecaries reading this piece will get a good flavour of the pandemic we faced in 2020 in comparison to historical pandemics, we hope you agree. Dr Christina Dale MBBS FRCEM President, Faculty of Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine “I’LL TAKE SOME TIME”. An answer I found myself repeatedly giving to questions from patients, colleagues and friends. Rather a “longitudinal” response accounting for an extended period of time, as I had just completed a Masters in Tropical Medicine studying epidemiology. Months earlier whilst completing field research, I had been offered roadside pangolins and bushmeat on my daily commute in central Cameroon, and here we had a novel zoonotic disease on my doorstep. I felt obliged to participate in the pandemic response. There was shrill excitement amongst peers in the global community. We had studied for such an event, that would require core public health principles to be applied on an international level. The amount of unrefined information being shared was remarkable. Opinions shouted over each other in a quest for attention, paralleled by the media’s attempt to sustain noise. Enough to give one a headache, which it did, so I muted most sources. In contrast, my patients in primary care were desperate for information. The hinderance in giving it 38
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