Why a leading UK cardiologist is working as a nurse assistant amid the COVID-19 crisis
'It's been truly exhausting, particularly for someone of my late middle age,' says Professor Richard Schilling
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Professor Richard Schilling is one of the UK’s top cardiologists but over the last month he has been working shifts as a nurse assistant in his hospital’s ICU.
His decision was prompted by the country’s second wave of COVID-19 cases threatening to swamp its health system.