{"id":766,"date":"2021-02-26T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-on-medscape\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:16:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T21:16:24","slug":"dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-on-medscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/dauks-dr-samantha-batt-rawden-on-medscape\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden on Medscape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/sbattrawden\/status\/1359134973522022401?s=20\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAUK&#8217;s Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden featured in Medscape&#8217;s Covid-19 roundup on 9th February 2021: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NHS &#8216;Nothing Special&#8217;&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is nothing special about the NHS, neither during this pandemic, nor at any other time.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those words come from an Institute Of Economic Affairs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iea.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/VIRAL-MYTHS.pdf\">report<\/a>\u00a0called &#8216;Viral Myths: Why we risk learning the wrong lessons from the pandemic&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The document from the think-tank&#8217;s Dr Kristian Niemietz argues that the pandemic &#8220;has given rise to the phenomenon of &#8216;Coronfirmation Bias&#8217;: the tendency to interpret the pandemic as a &#8216;vindication&#8217; of one\u2019s own world view&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden, president of Doctors&#8217; Association UK&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbattrawden\/status\/1359134973522022401?s=20\">tweeted:<\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;I am so upset by this. We have worked ourselves into the ground to save lives. We have lost hundreds of colleagues. How dare you. How dare you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAUK&#8217;s Dr Samantha Batt-Rawden featured in Medscape&#8217;s Covid-19 roundup on 9th February 2021: NHS &#8216;Nothing Special&#8217;&nbsp; &#8220;There is nothing special about the NHS, neither during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,65,29,58,310],"tags":[38,54,51,132,33,34,42,354],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-dauk-news","category-protect-the-frontline","category-the-nhs","category-uncategorized","tag-dauk","tag-dr-samantha-batt-rawden","tag-medscape","tag-nhs","tag-press","tag-press-covid-19","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}