Apparently my dentist died recently. Just keeled over and kicked the bucket while on his morning jog. This is what nobody is acknowledging about #COVID and #LongCOVID vascular and neural damage.

You will probably be fine if you're vaccinated and it will feel like a cold or maybe not even like anything, and then you go to work and spread it, then weeks or even months later when you are trying to go #BackToNormal and do some light exercise you just die.

#HealthcareWorkers need to recognize COVID as a #WorkersRights and safety issue. They are some of the most at risk people for the effects of long COVID especially because HCWs in the USA have a culture of emphasizing exercise and also sleep deprivation. I'm no immunologist but that seems like a risk factor to me.

Healthworkers’ mental well-being needs more attention, MEPs say https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/healthworkers-mental-well-being-needs-more-attention-meps-say/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #burnout #healthcareworkers #mentalhealth

“But COVID has taken regular healthcare workload pressure and put it on steroids.

#COVID is the proverbial straw that broke the health system’s back. After three-and-a-half years of operating in a crisis response mode, many of our #HealthCareWorkers are #BurningOut, suffering mental health stress or simply have left the workforce.”

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-why-hospitals-should-keep-mandatory-masking “#HealthCareWorkers just want to be safe. We want to avoid getting and transmitting disabling #postCOVID complications. Without protection and support from our leaders, health-care workers will follow the only healthy routes left to us when the trauma of being neglected and ignored are experienced: longer breaks, tighter boundaries, retire early, and escape to find healthier working environments.”

Standing up for healthcare workers and patients alike

#healthcareworkers #COVID19 #healthcaresystem #change #mentalhealth

Michael Fine is a family physician and author of On Medicine as Colonialism.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KNH-2cmOhdQ

Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast

"Doctors have never experienced so much stress, so much moral injury from not being able to undertake the care that they’re so desperate to give.”
“This government, with its silence and disregard for our highly skilled and expert workforce, is consciously and deliberately overseeing the demise of the #NHS at a point when it is needed most.”
Dr Philip Banfield, Chair #BMA

#UKStrikes #Doctors #JuniorDoctors #HealthcareWorkers #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/20/health-workers-shattered-says-jeremy-farrar-as-more-nhs-strikes-loom

Medical regulatory bodies say they’re facing more abuse, harassment as public frustration mounts - The Globe and Mail https://tgam.ca/3lxJRFG #cdnhealth #CPSO #Abuse #HealthcareWorkers #Harassment #Doctors #Nurses #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

Ontario proposes changes to long-term care home rules https://bit.ly/3JPzmHQ #MLTC #Medication #LongTermCare #PSW #HealthcareWorkers #AC #COVID19 #onpoli @onpoli @ontariogreens

One in three U.S. public health workers reported feeling threatened while on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic according to a study of over 26,000 professionals conducted between March 2020 and April 2021. Experiencing any type of workplace violence was significantly associated with an increased likelihood of reporting depression symptoms, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, or suicidal ideation.

https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/one-in-three-us-public-health-workers-reports-feeling-threatened-by-the-public-while-on-the-job-during-the-covid-19-pandemic

Study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.10.004

#PublicHealth #COVID19 #Pandemic #HealthcareWorkers #Healthcare #Health #Science #Violence #WorkplaceViolence #MentalHealth

Great editorial. Astute observations

“The efforts of #HealthCareWorkers are now taken for granted. It’s just expected — this is the “#NewNormal”. The ongoing marginalisation and isolation of #vulnerable populations is also just taken for granted, expected, and part of the “new normal”. Is this really the future we choose for ourselves? Community awareness is gone. #PublicHealth messaging is absent, and government seems very comfortable to continue with the status quo.”

https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/1/health-workers-and-vulnerable-patients-pay-the-price-for-nefarious-covid-normal-narratives/

Spanish health workers march against Madrid regional govt

https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Spanish-health-workers-march-against-Madrid-17719319.php

#Spain
#HealthcareWorkers

Anyone commenting on #nursingstrike in NY🤷🏽‍♀️ #MedMastodon #nursingmastodon #healthcareworkers

#Strikes by #HealthcareWorkers invite everyone into a conversation about what matters to us, what are we here for, what do we prioritise? Historically, care & treatment is a social sieve, separating haves from have-nots, but we now have the data on #socialdeterminants of #mentalhealth; it turns out #inequity is bad for ALL of us, not just the poor.

How do we value caring, & how do we value equity?

It seems obvious to me, but apparently this government thinks there are many for whom it's not.

RT @PAME_Greece@twitter.com

#NationalStrike of #healthcareworkers & Doctors of Greece
NOW in front of the Parliament
Massive #strike actions of all sectors in Solidarity
▶️Kill the Bill that privatizes our right in Healthcare
▶️FREE PUBLIC #HEALTHCARE for All

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PAME_Greece/status/1598277426894831616

RT @PAME_Greece@twitter.com

NOW
Thousands in front of the Parliament in Athens
#NationalStrike of #healthcareworkers & Doctors of Greece

▶️Kill the Bill that privatizes our right in Healthcare
▶️FREE PUBLIC #HEALTHCARE for All

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PAME_Greece/status/1598278455585832962

RT @PAME_Greece@twitter.com

NOW
Thousands in front of the Parliament in Athens #NationalStrike of #healthcareworkers & Doctors of Greece
The working class demands
▶️FREE PUBLIC #HEALTHCARE for All

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PAME_Greece/status/1598290743306891264

RT @PAME_Greece@twitter.com

#December1st starts with #NationalStrike of #healthcareworkers & Doctors of Greece

Massive #strike actions of all sectors in Solidarity
▶️Kill the Bill that privatizes our right in Healthcare
▶️FREE PUBLIC #HEALTHCARE for All

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PAME_Greece/status/1598219887394328577

#HealthcareWorkers remember what @chefjoseandres@twitter.com & his team did for us during the worst of the pandemic. ❤️‍🩹Double the impact of your gift to @WCKitchen@twitter.com & support #HCWvsHunger this week. You don’t have to be a HCW to participate. http://HCWvsHunger.org #foodfighters #medtwitter

RT @catladyactivist@twitter.com

I probably don't say this enough.

If you wear a mask, I appreciate you so much. You are making a difference. Every person who wears a mask reduces spread, eases burden on #hospitals & #healthcareworkers, sets a good example, and restores some of my hope in humanity.

#COVID

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/catladyactivist/status/1597306069377642496

@Rachelalter007
Shout out to #traumadocs #traumanurses and all #healthcareworkers
After yesterday's news I think we could all use #morecharlie