"When Jason responded to 9-1-1 calls, the patients were already very sick and had to be taken right to the ICU.Unlike hospitals and medical schools, EMS had the structure to help paramedics cope with the traumas of the pandemic but many didn't want to leave their teams short."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Susan Wild:
"Dr. Kraus teaches medical students.During the pandemic, he felt an overwhelming doom he was sending residents to their death. Medical training is already intense, and Dr. Kraus said medical schools lacked the resources to help students cope with the traumas of the pandemic."Read on Twitter
"Stories like these inspired my Dr. Lorna Breen Act, which provides critical mental health resources to our health care heroes.The law honors Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency room physician in New York City who tragically died by suicide two years ago today.wild.house.gov/media/press-re"Read on Twitter"Read on Twitter
"The Dr. Lorna Breen Act prevents suicide, reduces burnout, and addresses mental health conditions among health care workers.It also establishes a comprehensive study on health care providers' mental health and burnout, filling a critical gap in mental health data."Read on Twitter"Read on Twitter
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