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It has always been hard for me describe my experiences within Ebola Treatment Unit walls during the 2013 West African Ebola epidemic. Leaving that battlefield, most of us, national and international responders, could never quite find the right words. https://twitter.com/TheRealDoctorT/status/1285621154330415105
All I could ever say is many of us were irreparably scarred by the concentration & frequency of deaths around us. Coming home, years later, it has been heart breaking to see healthcare workers the whole world over relive this in successive waves of this pandemic.
The minds, spirits and resilience of the healthcare worker communities across the world are being repeated beaten against rocks of reality that are the human toll of this pandemic.
. @TheRealDoctorT's words and stories of his colleague resonate. I know this feeling of being resolved and being simultaneously numb. This pandemic is going to leave scars on our community long after this is over.
It is heartless for politicians to point to ever shrinking hospital and ICU beds and say, "See? There is still space. Let's keep growing the numbers."
Those politicians are doing irreparable damage to this country's healthcare workers. I can say this from first hand experience.
Those politicians are doing irreparable damage to this country's healthcare workers. I can say this from first hand experience.
Years after West Africa, most responders will still tell you, those scars are always just below the surface. Most of us took that & tried to work to affect change in our small purviews. I hope that's what this tragedy does-it brings good change down the road born out of the pain.
