Read on Twitter
"In wrenching interviews, nurses, doctors, technicians — and even administrative staff and dental hygienists who haven’t directly treated covid-19 patients — explained the impulse to quit and the emotional wreckage the pandemic has left in their lives." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/22/health-workers-covid-quit/
Emotional wreckage is a good description of it. This pandemic is gutting to anyone in health care, but also to people in ancillary roles - people like #medlibs and journalists. For example, see this thread: https://twitter.com/OliviaMesser/status/1358792505496641536?s=20
I've talked before about the emotional toll #medlibs work can have. This thread was before the pandemic really hit. Things have only gotten more severe, especially when you add in job precarity, other stressors aggravated by *waves hand vaguely* all this. https://twitter.com/tcshields/status/1230548365894705152?s=20
One of these days I need to write about this - the more than burnout, "emotional wreckage", moral distress, compassion fatigue, etc of being a medical librarian - in a more formal way, not just bleed it out on here or venting to friends who are willing to share the burden.
