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Healthcare workers lacking PPE suffer from more anxiety and depression
While all workers across Canada and around the world are being affected by COVID-19, healthcare workers as a group are most heavily feeling its impact. This is because of their pivotal role in the treatment of people infected with the virus and their high COVID-19 exposure as part of their job. As such, maximizing efforts to enable the healthcare workforce to remain free of COVID-19 infection, and stay in good physical and mental health, is essential to the response and management of COVID-19. -
The Buddhist Viking
Longevity in medicine necessitates some degree of desensitization. This is part of how we grow. It’s essential. This evolution, however, can come with a cost. With our competence comes the insidious erosion of empathy that creeps in, hand-in-hand with our competence, quietly, relentlessly, and destructively.