Additional restrictions and closures are inevitable in some parts of the country where cases are rising, hospital beds are full and exhausted health care workers are at their breaking point. The country’s doctors, nurses and other health care workers are at a breaking point. “They’re over it.”In interviews, more than two dozen front-line medical workers described the unrelenting stress that has become an endemic part of the health care crisis nationwide. “We’re sacrificing so much as health care providers — our health, our family’s health,” said Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency medicine physician in Yuma, Arizona. In the meantime, the creators of public health messaging should stop favoring the cute, warm and dull.

Source: bd News24 December 20, 2020 14:37 UTC