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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Sorry for being brutally honest but I don’t feel sorry for you or your doc husband.  This is part of the territory of what he signed up for.  For the future this crisis will
Separate those who really have a passion fir sacrificing to save lives vs choosing a career for the sole purpose of
Stable earnings, job security, and status.  I know plenty of healthcare workers who are crying now, wondering why 
They chose such a dangerous career.  [/quote]

MD here. You don't get it. You don't think the job was already hard? That we weren't already physically threatened routinely (by both infections on violent patients)? Nickel and dimed by the private equity firms that own all our groups? Suffered job creep where we are fully expected to chart at home so we can see more patients and make said hedge fund more money? And no we weren't complaining, expecting a pat on the back, or needing to be heralded as heroes. It's life, it's the job, we all get it. It's not the 80's anymore, which wasn't a great time in medicine anyway and largely got us to where we are now.

Here's the part I didn't sign up for:

Being quarantined from my family with inadequate and "recycled" PPE while being constantly exposed to a threat we can't even see coming.

Oh, and having my 401K and salary cut while doing it because the hedge fund that owns us is pushing profit loss into the laps of clinicians due to necessary cancellation of elective procedures. Clinicians who are hospital workers. Not plastic surgeons who are also small business owners and hung out a shingle to make that good money but also assume the associated risks. I'm taking internists, ER docs, nurses. This is blatant contract violation and it's being shoved in our faces as we go to work.

Lastly, props to the CDC for hastily writing recommendations that health care workers continue to work, even if exposed to covid, as long as we're asymptomatic. Guess what? That's all of us. We've all been exposed. That's about avoiding litigation for the class action lawsuits they know are coming.

So I'll sleep OK that I don't have your sympathy. I've got bigger problems.

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