Doctor fights back tears after GP under ‘unbearable pressure’ takes her own life

A Greater Manchester GP fought back tears on national television as she detailed the strain doctors were currently under. It follows comments from the husband of a GP who took her own life blaming her death on the “unbearable pressure” of the job.

The body of mum-of-two Dr Gail Milligan was discovered in woodland in Bracknell in Berkshire on Thursday, July, 28, 24 hours after she was reported missing from home.

Her husband Christopher Milligan posted an emotional tribute to his "wonderful, beautiful, funny and absolutely bananas wife, mother and doctor" in which he also described the huge workload she faced and in which he wanted to raise awareness of the pressures doctors are under reports Berkshire Live.

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"Her job as a partner at a GP surgery became overwhelming," he said. "Especially during the pandemic. She was seeing patients face-to-face the whole time, as well as the unbelievable amount of telephone consultations that were happening.

"She saw old people dying in care homes during the pandemic and was working at the vaccine centres. The pressure of not making mistakes, and the endless emails and paperwork, meant that for the last few years of her life she'd been neglecting herself.

"She used to leave for work at 6.45am and not get home until usually between 7.30pm and 8pm. When she arrived at home she would generally work until I made her go to bed at 11pm.

"That was a 'lazy' four days a week. On her 'lazy' day off on Thursdays, she would work for about 12 hours. Meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, never-ending emails and calls. This tipped over into the weekends more recently. The same workload all