‘I am on the coronavirus frontline and my family is being shunned’: A GP tells her story
A GP has shared how COVID-19 has begun taking a toll on her family, as well as her practice
Social distancing requirements have seen schools close, along with bars, gyms and other businesses, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
But should families of GPs also be forced into isolation? One GP says she has begun to feel like a pariah, due to her work: testing patients with suspected coronavirus.
Worse still has been the treatment of her teenage daughter, who she says has been banned from seeing friends by other parents.
GP Dr Mary-Anne Lancaster shares her story below.
