{"id":765,"date":"2021-02-25T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-doctor-begs-covid-sceptic-tory-mp-to-volunteer-in-her-icu-as-patients-die\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T22:08:14","slug":"dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-doctor-begs-covid-sceptic-tory-mp-to-volunteer-in-her-icu-as-patients-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-doctor-begs-covid-sceptic-tory-mp-to-volunteer-in-her-icu-as-patients-die\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUKs Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden: &#8216;Doctor begs Covid-sceptic Tory MP to volunteer in her ICU as patients die&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Volunteer at my ITU&quot; challenges Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGmx6Y4i9eo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden appeared on This Morning where she reacted to Conservative MP Desmond Swayne, who encouraged anti-vaxxers and said the NHS were &#8220;exaggerating&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaking her head, Dr Samantha replied: &#8220;I just can&#8217;t even, when you&#8217;re a member of the NHS and you are giving your all and spending 16 hours in PPE and working seven days a week, working yourself into the ground to keep patients safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;To hear that from somebody representing the government is really upsetting and it&#8217;s not acceptable, the pictures that you see of ambulances, queues down the road, they are real, and they have sick patients inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And if the Tory MP wants to see that they are very welcome to volunteer in my ICU, where we are short-staffed, to help turn patients on to their fronts, so that they can fight for their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;And if the Tory MP wants to see that they are very welcome to volunteer in my ICU, where we are short-staffed, to help turn patients on to their fronts, so that they can fight for their lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the report in The Mirror here: https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/doctor-begs-covid-sceptical-tory-23400306<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden appeared on This Morning where she reacted to Conservative MP Desmond Swayne, who encouraged anti-vaxxers and said the NHS were &#8220;exaggerating&#8221; Shaking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,29,58],"tags":[44,416,316,38,54,400,401,33,34,368,42,471,178,312],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-tv","tag-covid19","tag-dauk","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-featured-tv","tag-featured-tv-covid-19","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-daily-mirror","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-this-morning","tag-tv","tag-tv-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}