Doctor shares dying COVID-19 patient’s harrowing account
Dr Simon Tavabie, a UK palliative care doctor, says the woman likened her breathlessness to 'being unable to surface while swimming'
A UK doctor has shared a terrifying account by a dying patient of what it’s like to be left breathless from COVID-19.
Dr Simon Tavabie, a palliative care registrar from The Royal London Hospital, recalled how the female patient described, between gasps for air, what it felt like to be “so terrified and so breathless”.