Overburdened: The High Suicide Rate of Healthcare Workers

It’s been a rough few years for those of us in the healthcare professions. Our lives, dominated by COVID-related concerns at home, were equally dominated by COVID-concerns at work. On the job, there were fewer and fewer of us around as exploitation and COVID-related stressors led doctors, nurses, and others to leave the profession entirely or take early retirement. Even now, I’m not sure we’ve recovered. Staffing in the hospitals is still a huge problem — and the persistence of impersonal meetings via teleconference, which not only prevent any sort of human connection but — audaciously — run from one to the other without a break — robs us of even the subtle joy of walking from one hallway to another for five minutes of reflection before sitting down to view the next hastily-cobbled together PowerPoint.

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