Commentary Sam White qualified as a doctor in 2004 and quickly rose to become a partner in a rural medical practice in Hampshire, England, but after he questioned the response of the National Health Service (NHS) to the pandemic his career with the agency was effectively over. To begin with he had tried to raise his concerns with his colleagues, but he told me in a wide-ranging interview, “I felt absolute frustration at not being listened to, and I wondered where we as a nation were going with this.” His doubts led him to resign as a partner in February 2020, but he continued working as a substitute doctor and last month decided to air his grievances on video. To his surprise it attracted over a million views before being taken down by Instagram after just three days, but also led to a letter from the NHS informing him that …
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