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Flavia Machado gives you the ins and outs of a day in the life of an ICU doctor working in Brazil. She addresses healthcare inequality, ethics, and the challenges she faces in a developing country. By sharing a blow-by-blow account of a day at work, Flavia demonstrates the challenges and inequality that exists. And whilst poverty is shocking, Flavia believes inequality is worse. Flavia’s day begins in the morning with a ward round. Critical bed shortages mean that the clinicians have to make impossible decisions – which patients will get allocated one of the scarce beds? At 07:00am every morning, Flavia and her colleagues in the ICU have to play God. Inequality is plain to see. It is graphically depicted when looking at a map of the distribution of ICU beds across Brazil. In the north, an area of greater disadvantage, there are far less ICU beds per capita. Flavia continues her day, but the challenges do not stop. She checks WhatsApp later in the morning and is inundated with issues pertaining to medication s