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Rachel Clarke
9 quotes
“The morning after it happens, it is hard to believe the sun still shines. I am standing in the kitchen, staring out across fields of frost, when a wren darts and whirs through the hedge in front of me. Dad, in a flash, is there too. "Look, Rachel! A wren!" His heart, like mine, never failed to lift at this smallest and most jaunty of birds. But, the night before, cancer finally claimed my dad. The wrens will keep whirring, but he has gone.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thank you, NHS, for giving Dad the best possible death", The Times (7 January 2018)
“With NHS staff being forced to witness our patients dying in corridors, in cupboards, on floors and in stranded ambulances, we can only thank our lucky stars that the country's second most powerful politician is the man who last year published Zero: Eliminating Unnecessary Deaths in a Post-Pandemic NHS.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to", The Guardian (6 January 2023).
“I arrive at work to find the atmosphere mutinous. The nurses in my hospital – as in every other – are exhausted, demoralised and often close to quitting. They take on gruelling extra shifts to make ends meet. They know they could earn more in the local supermarket. I look at my colleagues’ faces – so decent, so weary – and think: what a fatuous own goal, what vindictive idiocy. Who in their right mind would take nurses to court rather than persisting with diplomacy?”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why the government’s court action against striking nurses is an act of vindictive idiocy", New Statesman (3 May 2023).
“[Frail patients] went on to Covid wards, which was where I tended to work. Sometimes, six or eight patients on a ward would die in one day. The hideous, industrial scale of death after death after death – it was utterly horrific. And I say that as someone who is very used to death and dying.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Clarke was] caring for patients who are destined from the moment they come into hospital to never even see a human face again [...] Every face they see is masked.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[From a family of male doctors and female nurses, Clarke at first did not want to become a doctor] I worried that my main reason would be because I hero-worshipped my dad, wanted to make him proud. [As a journalist, Clarke] had massive impostor syndrome, always felt like I was faking it, trying to act tough.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Zoe Williams, as cited in "'I detest bullies': Dr Rachel Clarke on Jeremy Hunt, government lies and the long legacy of Covid", The Guardian (29 January 2024).
“This week, in response to the series, NHS England linked staff to a range of support services in a tweet [which follows]. The only problem? The dedicated NHS staff mental health and wellbeing hubs to which the tweet directed staff had their funding cut in early 2023. Almost half have since closed. I suppose they were judged too costly to maintain for NHS staff who were so evidently, from the outset, expendable.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rage, relief and recognition: the TV version of my book Breathtaking has opened a floodgate", The Guardian (22 February 2024).
“If [[w:Sally Davies (doctor)|[Sally] Davies]] really wants to bolster rock-bottom morale among juniors, she could publicly lobby the government to address the gaps that cripple every junior doctor rota. She could argue for proper hospital rest facilities so that never again does a junior doctor kill themselves while driving home from a night shift, having fallen asleep at the wheel. She could demand a public inquiry into the recent spate of junior doctor suicides, because no one’s conditions of work should ever make them feel suicidal, least of all those who save lives for a living. She could, in short, campaign for meaningful action, not a conveniently cost-neutral name change.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I'm proud to be called a junior doctor. Titles are the least of our problems", The Guardian (10 October 2017).
“[T]he ABC acronym used in traumas all over the world today arose from a particular light aircraft crash on a Nebraska prairie in the 1970s. James Styner, the American trauma surgeon who happened to be flying the plane, was horrified by the chaos, incompetence and dithering that nearly cost his four young children their lives in a tiny rural hospital. The acronym he developed is based on the principle that when someone is critically injured, time is of the essence. Airway, Breathing and Circulation problems must be fixed in that order, before moving on to the next thing, because they are most likely to kill the patient fastest. The genius of the acronym lies in its simplicity. It gives doctors, nurses and paramedics a scaffold to cling on to amid the shock and disarray of a major disaster, providing emergency treatment one logical step at a time.”
Rachel Clarke (born 1972) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Instead of helping desperate NHS doctors like me, Thérèse Coffey is sticking in the boot", The Guardian (22 September 2022).