A nurse praised by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his release from hospital after being treated for COVID-19 has given an insight into what its like to care for a world leader.
“I felt nervous at first – he was the Prime Minister,” Luis Pitarma, the Portuguese-born nurse who was chosen to take care of Johnson when the PM went into intensive care, wrote on the website of the Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.
“The responsibility I was going to hold in my hands was quite overwhelming,” he said. “I didnt really know how to address him – should I call him Boris, Mr Johnson or Prime Minister?”
But Pitarma said the problem was solved when Johnson told him to call him Boris: “That made me feel less nervous because he took away any formality.”
While Johnson was the first “high profile” politician Pitarma has cared for, “he was also a patient like any other patient, a life like any other life.”
The pair had several conversations, Pitarma said, including about Portugal and how he dreamt about working at St Thomas Hospital after hearing about Florence Nightingale and her linkRead More – Source
A nurse praised by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson following his release from hospital after being treated for COVID-19 has given an insight into what its like to care for a world leader.
“I felt nervous at first – he was the Prime Minister,” Luis Pitarma, the Portuguese-born nurse who was chosen to take care of Johnson when the PM went into intensive care, wrote on the website of the Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust.
“The responsibility I was going to hold in my hands was quite overwhelming,” he said. “I didnt really know how to address him – should I call him Boris, Mr Johnson or Prime Minister?”
But Pitarma said the problem was solved when Johnson told him to call him Boris: “That made me feel less nervous because he took away any formality.”
While Johnson was the first “high profile” politician Pitarma has cared for, “he was also a patient like any other patient, a life like any other life.”
The pair had several conversations, Pitarma said, including about Portugal and how he dreamt about working at St Thomas Hospital after hearing about Florence Nightingale and her linkRead More – Source
