Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of Pandemic

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/16/doctors-are-calling-it-quits-under-stress-of-pandemic/

Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of Pandemic
November 16, 2020 at 8:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard

The New York Times reports that, as the coronavirus surges again, thousands of medical practices are shutting down as doctors and nurses seek early retirement or jobs that don’t cause such intense stress.

[Aristus]

1. I'm just coming off two weeks of vacation.

The rest and lack of stress had me thinking seriously about early retirement.

But I'm not there yet. My retirement account isn't self-sustaining yet...

First day back at work; we'll see how it goes...

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Good Luck!

I know 3 teachers that packed it in.
One is the neighbor whose property backs up to ours.
All in their mid to late 50s.
Were thinking 62 until this came up.

[Ohiya]

6. I was going to work three more years, but I retired.

The stress of working around Covid and being in a high risk age group was bad enough, but working around a bunch of right wing evangelicals was the final straw.

Actually, I might go back if the need for RNs becomes desperate in this area.

[RKP5637]

7. The evangelicals pour gas on the fire. Incredible, Covid-19 is bad enough, but stupid humans

make it far worse to deal with.

[LiberalArkie]

9. The evangelicals are easy to treat, just tell them that you will add them to your prayer list

and send them home.

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, that's best!!! n/t

[keithbvadu2]

14. Love it! BIGLY!

[mitch96]

15. Same here. I went thru the HIV/Zika/chickengunya/bird flu scare. Like you the age thing

and the insanity of this virus drove me out of the hospital.. I loved my profession but I will not die for it.
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[bmbmd]

2. I'll ride it through to the end.

At least until things are "more normal". Then I'll exit stage left.

[pandr32]

13. Awwww...memories of Snagglepuss the pink mountain lion

Thank you

[wnylib]

18. I resemble that remark!

[pandr32]

20. LOL!

[exboyfil]

4. My nurse daughter just bought a condo

I wish she hadn't done that. She is under a great deal of stress right now (she is a 23 year old charge nurse on a mental health floor with over 20 patients).

Helpful family members like my mother in law were pushing her towards it. I was perfectly happy to have her continue living at home. This is on top of buying her first car.

Now she is a slave. She definitely has it better than others because she has no student debt on top of this. I wanted her to keep saving her money and getting ready to move to another state or country if necessary (or possible).

[angrychair]

5. Sister is a nurse

There is growing talk of a general strike in the medical community to bring attention to the the scarcity of PPE and the zero sense of urgency in wearing a mask and protecting each other.

Not a lot but she said its growing

[Alex4Martinez]

8. Teachers, too. n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Medical professionals and hospitals should not treat anyone

Who has been known to purposely not wear masks or do social distancing; maybe we can send them to one place in the country and isolate them, North Dakota?

I’m quite serious

[RobinA]

17. This Is Not What

being a medical professional is about.

[StarryNite]

21. If it comes to a triage situation those who didn't mask up

should be the last ones to receive treatment. But the question would be how would you know which ones didn't wear masks? I doubt they would be truthful about it.

[Luciferous]

12. My father-in-law was a surgical nurse who had planned on working a few more years but

retired over the summer. My husband's stepmom has some health issues and I think that combined with Covid were the final straw for him. He was a workaholic so it's been an adjustment but I think he made the right choice.

[ananda]

16. Wow!

Dayum

[wnylib]

19. Disaster to.lose health care workers

when cases are increasing. But I understandable, given what they're dealing with.

Should get better under President Biden.

[BobTheSubgenius]

22. At first glance, I was very, very ambivalent about this news.

I guess the "acid test" is...it's their own life they're trying to save, and if that's what they need to achieve that, who am I to say otherwise?

I just hope the numbers aren't large enough to take this whole mess one more circle inside Dante's hellscape.