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> But I also chose to work at a place that has a physician-led and supportive administration Your positive experience seems to confirm that working in a place
by nexuist 6y ago
> But I also chose to work at a place that has a physician-led and supportive administration
Your positive experience seems to confirm that working in a place with good management has a positive effect on employee morale, although I'm not sure anyone was questioning that in the first place. It is however uplifting to note that workplaces like yours exist.
I also think it depends on the area you serve. I imagine for many hospitals COVID was a case of "do everything right and everything still goes wrong" - especially when you reach max capacity, it doesn't matter how good of a doctor you are, you can't heal people with your bare hands. Likewise, it doesn't matter how well you use PPE or social distance or stay at home if thousands of others in your area ignore the safety measures and get each other sick, and it doesn't matter how much you care about keeping people safe if your local or federal governments don't take the issue seriously. This has been a huge stress point not just for doctors but for everyone I think, the knowledge that so much misery and death could have been avoided if we just did what we knew we should do when this mess started.
- throwawaemdee 6y agoYou're absolutely right. I think a lot of the stress-related stories we're seeing do depend on the location, demographics, and a ton of other factors; a large city academic center might have a lot higher load and resource stress than a smaller hospital. But overall, I just like to point out to people that some of us in medicine and nursing are doing just fine through all of this. A lot of people assume that we're all miserable because we work in the acute hospital/ICU setting.