I genuinely appreciate that folks are paying attention to healthcare professionals... sincerely and genuinely

I will also repeat for the 222th time that WE ARE ALREADY RESILIENT AS HELL. We made it through pre-med (a time to weed out), medical school (wildly difficult on https://twitter.com/cochraneuk/status/1325484487162081283

all levels and also designed to sort the students according to potential) and then residency (anywhere from 2-7ish years of the hardest physical, intellectual, and emotional professional work you can imagine).

Tremendously grateful for the attention and well-intended energy

on this issue. But I truly hope that in the future we can focus more of our energy on fixing the unbearable and unsustainable conditions we work under.

Before folks come on here and claim that conditions in healthcare are not “unbearable” or accuse me of hyperbole, I suggest

you read any of the words by @DrOniBee @uche_blackstock @LiangRhea @RheaBoydMD @LashNolen @catjacarol01 @QaaliHussein1 @arghavan_salles Megan Babb and any many many others who have written so eloquently on the subject.

Particularly for Black, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and women; it is

absolutely unbearable and unsustainable. And yet, many of us still go to work. Every. Day. In. A. Pandemic.

If that isn’t the definition of resilience, then I don’t know what is.

So please, please. Let’s focus our time, energy, and grant money on studying how to fix

the broken system and not on how to make healthcare professionals more resilient. We’ve already capped on the resilience factor in the equation.