Health care workers are facing a severe mental health crisis, according to a new survey published Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Workers said they are experiencing harassment, burnout, and other mental health symptoms – including anxiety and depression – at levels higher than before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Health workers and health-related professions have historically faced long work hours, often with unpredictable or rotating schedules or like what I experienced as an emergency physician working overnights and on holidays,” Dr. Debra Houry, the CDC’s chief medical officer, said during a press conference about the report Tuesday afternoon.
While I agree working conditions are horrible and the anti-science community rejecting vaccines is infuriating some of ppls distrust of Healthcare comes from them repeatedly whoring us out to pharmaceutical companies and them blatantly ignoring health concerns from patients. Also the possibility of going broke from a hospital visit.
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