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I& #39;m officially over the hero trope. That& #39;s a framework being built by well-intentioned people who want to help us, but can& #39;t, or far worse, ill-intentioned people who can help us, but won& #39;t. 1/
Let& #39;s be clear about this - we aren& #39;t heroes. We& #39;re just people doing our jobs. And we love our jobs, and we& #39;re happy to do it, but it was never supposed to be a job done at our peril. 2/
It was already hard enough to do this job under the everyday emotional and physical abuses induced by patients, their families, and sometimes other staff. (BTW, we& #39;ve been screaming into the void about this for years and we weren& #39;t heroes then, but I digress...) 3/
Then there& #39;s the shocking suicide rate amongst doctors and nurses. We& #39;ve been screaming about that one for years, too. Not a lot of hero status calls when those stories came out. 4/
So now we& #39;re literally risking our lives to simply do our jobs. A job, by the way, that we can& #39;t just not do. That& #39;s abandonment, and we can lose our licenses for it. 5/
So yeah, we love our jobs and we& #39;re happy to do it, but we& #39;re not heroes. We& #39;re just people who want to do our jobs SAFELY. We want to do this so that we can get you well and get you home - SAFELY.
We don& #39;t want to be called heroes, but we do need your help. 6/
We don& #39;t want to be called heroes, but we do need your help. 6/
Instead of calling us heroes, do this instead:
1. WASH your hands. Often.
2. Stay INDOORS.
3. Use your VOICE. Call your congressperson & your governor. Please. Implore THEM to help us.
4. In November, remember who abandoned us. Remember their names. #remembertheirnames
/end
1. WASH your hands. Often.
2. Stay INDOORS.
3. Use your VOICE. Call your congressperson & your governor. Please. Implore THEM to help us.
4. In November, remember who abandoned us. Remember their names. #remembertheirnames
/end
Addendum: Don’t lose sight of how we got here. This is the BS we have to fight when the Covid19 battle is over.
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