{"id":91820,"date":"2020-04-17T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91820"},"modified":"2020-04-17T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T21:27:03","slug":"bbc-coronavirus-a-deacon-who-left-medicine-for-church-returns-to-the-nhs-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91820","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Portait of a Heroine: A C of E Deacon who left medicine for church returns to the NHS front line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deacon who left medicine to join the church has gone back to the NHS front line to help fight coronavirus because there was &#8220;a need and an ask&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Reverend Dr Susan Salt spent more than 30 years as a physician before joining Blackburn Diocese in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She decided to rejoin Blackpool Victoria Hospital after the government called on retired medics to return.<\/p>\n<p>She said she hoped her experience meant she could support patients &#8220;spiritually and mentally as well as physically&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Salt, who lives in Grimsargh and was working in the Preston and Garstang area, joined a diocese group responding to the pandemic in March, providing medical and bereavement advice and guidance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-52309886\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Lancashire Deacon who left medicine for the church is returning to the NHS front line.<br \/>\nHear from Reverend Dr Susan Salt on Friday&#8217;s breakfast show with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrahamLiver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GrahamLiver<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfccThUsTU\">https:\/\/t.co\/SfccThUsTU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Lancashire (&#x1f3e0; #StayHomeSaveLives) (@BBCLancashire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCLancashire\/status\/1250774714647281667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deacon who left medicine to join the church has gone back to the NHS front line to help fight coronavirus because there was &#8220;a need and an ask&#8221;. The Reverend Dr Susan Salt spent more than 30 years as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91820\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,199,104,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91823,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91820\/revisions\/91823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}