How do doctors relieve stress and what lessons can we learn from them? 

There are several strategies that people working in emergency departments use to cope with the pressure

Irish Team Relentless at the finish line of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge L-R Sean Underwood, Patrick O'Connor, Thomas Browne & Eoin O'Farrell CREDIT BEN DUFFY.

Dr Sean Underwood, a specialist registrar in emergency medicine who works in the emergency department (ED) at CUH is well suited to his pressurised job. It has been a year and a half of national emergency with the pandemic (and then the cyber attack on the HSE). But Dr Underwood says he has always been drawn "to bringing calm to the chaos."

(L to R) Sean Underwood, Pat O'Connor, Tommy Browne , Eoin O'Farrell arriving at Dublin airport following their epic row across the Atlantic, in aid of CUH Charity. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins