Summary
An author turned junior doctor’s account of the chaos at work and anguish at home as Covid-19 arrived in the UK.
Content
Roopa Farooki’s stream of consciousness relates 40 days in her life as a junior doctor. An award-winning author, she retrained as a doctor and was in her first year working at an English seaside hospital when SARS-CoV-2 arrived here.
Forty days is the period Venetian ships were kept at anchor to reduce transmission when they docked from disease-infected ports in the 14th century, but during the chaotic opening stages of the Covid-19 pandemic Farooki is in constant motion, walking along dual carriageways and fields from her family home with her husband and children, to the hospital and its virus. She is also reeling from the recent death of her rivalrous older sister, Kiron, from breast cancer.
Everything is True is the story of Roopa's first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients' and colleagues' survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward. At once an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, and the devastating story of a sister's grief, Everything is True is an exhilarating memoir of holding on to that which makes us human against insurmountable odds.
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