FIRST it was nurses, then it was journalists; now it is doctors who suffered terribly during the covid years and, even five years later, they are still burned out. The poor dears.
According to an article on the Axios website in the United States: ‘Doctors are still burned out five years after covid exposed systemic failures’. One guesses that it wasn’t the US doctors whose time was occupied making TikTok dance videos, many of which can be viewed here (take your pick), just like their UK equivalents whose antics can be viewed here.
According to Maya Goldman, author of the article, after covid ‘shook the world’, the failures exposed by the ‘pandemic’ have left doctors and many other health professionals burned out. But it transpires that the burnout is not entirely related to covid: this is just a general gripe about ‘burnout’ in the medical profession which existed prior to covid and from which many continue to suffer.
It seems that five years after the ‘pandemic’ the very word ‘covid’ can still be used to draw attention to almost any adverse situation in healthcare, even if its contribution was minor. According to Goldman, covid ‘supercharged’ the problem with burnout and some of that was a result of ‘nurses and other medical providers’ who ‘worked long hours with less equipment and often in isolation to save the first Covid-19 patients’. The expression ‘give me a break’ comes to mind, as does ‘Really? Five years on?!’
Doctors and other health professionals have always worked long hours; the work is hard and often isolating. That is, after all, what they signed up for. So much for heroic acts, self-sacrifice and dedication. It all goes to pot if the problem, however fake, is labelled a ‘pandemic’ and covid just adds that touch of drama.
It was all OK initially when ‘health providers were lauded as heroes at the start of the pandemic’ which even ‘improved wellbeing at work’. Apparently ‘more time spent with patients’ helped rather than time spent on paperwork. But, clearly, not if spending more time turned into spending too much time. This is obviously a gripe about paperwork and long hours and little to do with patient care or covid.
It all went downhill when ‘Five minutes later, it felt like those same workers were being questioned about the science, getting spit [sic] on, threatened’. Threats and being spat on are unacceptable, but surely being questioned is acceptable. After all, this can happen when you try to sell people a load of lies about fatalities, face masks, lockdowns and vaccines.
Health professionals are well-known to suffer from the syndrome of burnout. Long exposure to stress leads to a lack of compassion for patients, a routine approach to the job and a feeling of little reward. That cannot be a good thing and if it can be alleviated by better working conditions and less stress then, if possible, these things should be done.
But, please, doctors and nurses, spare us the continuing covid narrative bleating. Tell the truth, which as someone said, ‘sets you free’. Covid was a mild virus from which, contrary to the lies promulgated by governments and the media, the vast majority of us emerged unscathed. It is in the past; please leave it there.
