A LEADING Bradford doctor whose fly-on-the-wall reporting of life on the Covid-19 frontline became an award-winning BBC series has captured his experiences in a new book.
Since March 16 2020, the day of the Prime Minister’s first address to the nation on the pandemic, Professor John Wright kept an online diary for BBC News and recorded from the hospital wards as part of BBC Radio 4's The NHS Front Line.
Those behind-the-scenes insights have now been adapted for his latest book, The Coronavirus Doctor’s Diary: Stories from the NHS Frontline, which is poised to make its debut at Bradford Literature Festival next week.
The book takes readers behind the scenes to tell the stories of NHS staff with honesty and openness, capturing the devastating and rapidly changing impact of the virus on patients as they struggle to breathe and fight for their lives.
Prof Wright said: “The pandemic brought countless stories of human tragedy and hope.
"The book is an attempt through the experiences in one hospital, in one city, to tell the unique social and medical history of triumph in the case of adversity.”
He will be talking about his book on Sunday, June 26. Visit the Bradford Literature Festival website for further details.
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