Dr Marie Edison

Hilary says: "I was lucky enough to meet Marie in person on a beautiful sunny evening outside the house where she has been living alone to avoid infecting other family members whilst working at the forefront of the Coronavirus crisis in a London hospital. At the beginning of 2020 Marie had planned to undertake medical volunteer work abroad before taking up a coveted place to train as a surgeon in the autumn. Instead, she has been working in A and E where she has experienced the full brunt of the pandemic. She contracted Covid herself, fortunately not severely, but there were fatalities amongst her team. The sharp contrast between the mild inconvenience of the lockdown I was experiencing and the daily assault, physical and psychological, of Marie's life as a hospital doctor could not have been starker. She and her colleagues are owed eternal gratitude."