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Treating healthcare workers as heroes is unhelpful

26 October 2020

The narrative of health workers as ‘heroes’ or ‘angels’ during Covid-19 is unhelpful, as it paints a picture of people doing things because they’re special, rather than workers doing a job that needs adequate pay and protection, argues Dr Jo Billings (UCL Psychiatry).

Read: BBC News