Vineet Arora MD MAPP’s Post

Get ready for this new variant from South Africa folks. I’m sitting back to see this sh*% hit the fan. 😞 Economy what economy?🙄

Healthcare workers are the biggest labor cost. Healthcare cannot function without its workers, yet nurses and doctors are disrespected and treated like commodities rather than people. Then they are expected to give good customer service, support the organization, and care about the bottom line. Healthcare is no longer the face of compassion that it claims to be. I quit my nursing job in October to stay home and pursue what I love. One nurse quit the profession and opened her own nail salon. Many of my friends have quit the nursing profession.

Thanks for sharing this Vineet. The heroic professionals who operate, reinforce and support our system are struggling under the weight of poorly aligned incentives and a troubled if not at least half-broken system. I give Thanks this holiday season for all the clinicians who show up everyday and battle bad software, inadequate reimbursement and mindless beauracracy to achieve clinical outcomes.

I feel so deeply for the front line workers ; nurses, doctors, pharmacy...that are face to face with patients. I realized several years ago working in local pharmacy, I just couldn’t do it anymore. I’ve worked retail pharmacy my whole life and wrapped my whole life and existence around my career only to now second guess myself seeing how it’s not only been a blessing to support my family but also how it’s taxed them. They’ve suffered with my devotion to my job and patients over the year’s ; sacrificing missing out on countless school & sports events, awards ceremonies and holidays with my family. Do the patients understand that? Of course not! We are there to serve them and take care of them the best of our abilities. We become our jobs... are devoted & come to love our patients to the point of self sacrifice allowing employers and patients to verbally and physically attack us. My dedication to my career spans over 26 years and the thought of not being there for my coworkers and patients upset me. The thought of not having a job/ career possibly because I apply for religious exemption and my Christian beliefs are questioned & my legal rights are in jeopardy are hurtful and nerve wracking . Do I continue to sacrifice my health?

I have to agree with my health care providers comments on why they are quitting. As a recently retired nurse after 46 years of service I must say that during the pandemic and even before then the health care industry somehow lost it's essence on health care. It became this huge monster where hospital organizations started to put more and more demands on physicians, nurses, office managers, medical assistants and other medical personnel. Everyday day there was a new demand and if the demand was not fulfilled there would be consequences especially in regards to physician salaries and number of hours you were permitted to work. We would give it our all but it seemed it was never enough. We worked hard during the pandemic, we became overwhelmed when people started to quit, we didn't have enough staff to perform all the duties that we had to take over, patients were not empathetic and became demanding, rude, and disrespectful. They did not want to hear that we did not have enough staff and would curse us out and slam down the phones on us. We had to endure all of this on top of trying to keep up. It just became frustrating and overwhelming. I was due to retire and took advantage of it.

Wow.

There's about $50billion in the new infrastructure bill for health prep/infrastructure according to my Congressman's staff, we'll have to see whether that's enough; only history, yet to be written, will tell. Meanwhile I'd like to see the definitive study that shows how much of the rush to the exits of health careers is b/c of Covid vax mandates (The Atlantic article doesnt have it). Eliminating them, as I understand the Fed 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled to do, would be a quick fix. But by the time the data become available, how many will have burned their bridges that wouldve allowed them to reenter the HCW workforce?

They Aren’t leaving because deaths could have been prevented by the vaccines, they are leaving because of the gencocide Created by the “vaccines” and the unconstitutional mandates.

Medical residents exhausted after 20+ hour shifts see the risk hospital economic drivers have upon patient safety and employee safety, now are selecting careers that value well being. Interesting that medical school does not value well being or natural remedies.

I come from a family of nurses and throughout my career I've worked alongside them as health caregivers recognizing the interaction between mental health and medical/physical health. What I saw with my mom and now in my counseling practice is compassion fatigue. It's a state of physical and emotional exhaustion which comes through as a lack of empathy and compassion. It's emotional burnout from repeated withdrawals from/of self and few deposits of appreciation or return. Compassion fatigue is like battle fatigue leading to PTSD symptoms, even survivor guilt which interfere with overall functioning. Nurse Cassandra Werry says: "we're at war with a virus and its hosts are at war with us". Perhaps the real virus comes from the mass epidemic of self centeredness from a society which worships individualism, otherwise known as every man for himself? It leaves no room for gratitude or appreciation. Let's hope this nurse exodus is health caregivers recognizing the necessity of serving themselves first vs last; that their mental and physical health matter. Hopefully, society will then place value where our health and survival lie, in health caregivers and others like teachers, firemen etc vs entertainment idols. #calmmatters