I'm working with doctors in admin and the Healthcare collapse? It's bad folks.
Doctors on call for ED while doing clinical at the same time.
Entire departments refusing patients in clinics up to 75 miles away. 3 weeks to make an appointment. Not to be seen, to make an appointment.
Shortages in all departments.
The only silver lining is that the there is a lot of solidarity among the people here.
Just to add, from experience, the healthcare system was in a prolonged collapse before the pandemic. But its dysfunction was normalized like a frog in a slowly-boiling pot. The pandemic just turned up the temperature too quickly and it croaked
Eventually, every day on the way in to the job I was full of dread and heartache... Every day at work I spent bearing witness to the collective human trauma and misery of our neoliberal fever-dream. Poverty. Desperation. Suffering. Shit and blood. All of it set to a soundtrack of moaning, screams, and impotent complaints playing on repeat. There is nothing more radicalizing than standing in the crowded waiting room of a level 1 trauma center in the yankee empire. The pandemic was just a dirge.
Ughhgh I was offered a job in the er and I refused for that reason. No wonder people are leaving en masses.
All of that suffering, all of it, mandated by the rich wanting more yachts.
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I used to work in a nursing home and... yeah. :/