'I care so much about my patients and I want them to get better, but the amount of emotional energy I have to give patients just keeps depleting a little more with each passing wave,' says Erica White, RN.
, MD, the regional clinical and medical director of Carbon Health and Saint Mary’s Hospital, who also serves on Nevada’s Governor's COVID Medical Advisory Team. “When you think of other diagnoses, like cancer, for example, you don’t have patients telling you, ‘No, cancer doesn’t really exist.’”misinformation in the pandemic,
by now, many are too worn down by their work and the abuse they’ve received from online trolls to continue to do so. “I think in the beginning, I engaged more with those types of attacks and tried to explain things because I thought there was a way to get through to people,” says, MD, FACP, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, oncologist, and the president of Women In Medicine.
“The saddest thing I’ve heard from colleagues is that we need help and no help is coming,” Dr. Jain says. “We need better public health messaging, we need more, better safety procedures, childcare subsidies, loan repayment or repayment for the amount of money people paid to go to school, and to show healthcare workers that we actually care about the sacrifices they make,” including the mental health tolls, as well as the increased risk to their own and their families’ health they’ve taken on.
This problem may seem large and complex, but it deserves an urgent solution. More and more frontline workers are leaving medicine altogether — nearly
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