I am an ear, nose and throat surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, and since specialising in 2009 I have only worked with a certain part of the body, seen little blood and even less death. I work in a tertiary hospital and, when the second wave hit the province I live in, we were asked to help out in the medical wards. I was very scared, because I was not sure if I could remember anything about normal medicine and worried that I could be more of a risk to the patients than a help. Of course, I was also concerned about getting Covid-19 myself. ..