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Many people do not realize it but we do not go into medicine because the smartest people go into it anymore or to make the most money. Hedge funds /startups/ consulting is where the best talent goes to these days and where the most money is to be had. 1/n
We go into it to help others. And what COVID19 has revealed about us a whole is that many in society do not care for us or each other . The moral injury people suffer as we are submitted to many risks because a hospital administrator thought it was okay is the problem of 2/n
the healthcare system and many are abandoning in it in droves. We all love what we do . But it hurts when we do it risking our lives with no help or support when something happens to us as witness by the countless dead healthcare providers —respiratory therapists , nurses, 3/n
maintenance workers, PA, NPs, doctors —who died from COVID. And we are told by administrators they did not get it in the hospital when we have to re-use N95 masks, we are exposed to patients /family members who are not tested , we do procedures without knowing the real risk. 4/n
Instead of owning up to the mission and assuming guilt, many institutions have washed the guild off their hands . That is why people leave . We need to have a major conversation on how to make medicine a less toxic environment and re-build not with the profit incentive 5/n
but with the goal to serve those in the kingdom of illness. We are the soldiers who go in and out put our lives on the line, our families life on the line to serve . We are all aware that may involve the ultimate of sacrifices but we do it anyway . 6/n
However , many have not received the help they wanted. We need to change the system and rebuild hospitals centering on patients and the healthcare workers not on money or administrators desires who are not in the arena and dealing with failures we see day in and out . 7/n
We need people in the upper echelons that know what it is to put yourself on the line and know what it is to carry a personal graveyard of those you could not help and that you know why—such as access to care or socioeconomic factors— or others you may never know why . 8/n
Things need to change : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/science/health-care-workers-burned-out-quitting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
