The Death of Empathy
I feel it too
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/kevinmd/96487?xid=nl_popmed_2022-01-07&eun=g1710073d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PopMedicine_010722&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_PopMedicine_Active
Y ou used to see and hear us talk with joy as we passed on our trade to the next generation of caregivers. We loved our jobs and couldn't think of anything else we would rather do than care for our communities, and we would pass that on to our trainees.
But then COVID denial, anti-masking, and vaccine refusal entered our world, and everything changed.
And we became frustrated and angry and sad and horrified. And then, as we became just plain exhausted, we watched our colleagues leave one by one for myriad very valid reasons from what we had always considered our second family. And while we don't blame our former colleagues at all for those decisions, it has added to the pain that was already so great that now we are just numb.