stuff i want for #DoctorsDay (a boy can dream)
🙏better RN pay so they stop leaving
🙏less gaslighting, more attention to actual experts
🙏cautious evidence-based COVID health policy, more masks, improved ventilation (it ain't over)
stuff i don't want
🙅♂️emails
🙅♂️pizza
🙅♂️signs
For those who don’t agree that the vaccinated can return to pre-pandemic normal, I ask: What should we all do? Perpetual masking? Forever not dining out, avoiding large weddings & indoor gatherings, etc? Virtually everything has risk, and zero covid is not a viable strategy.
"Even though payments to physicians have not increased in 21 years, when adjusted for inflation, Medicare payments to physicians have effectively DECREASED by 58%." https://t.co/dOESqxROCe
Daughter after hike: “You don’t have to be like ‘step away from the edge, I once saw a guy who had a HORRIBLE FALL AND DEATH.’ You can just say ‘step away from the edge’ like a normal mom.”
Staying home with my unsick 3yo because one of her friends failed a covid test is weird when we are watching Peppa Pig re-runs when Peppa is actually sick and covered in spots and her friends still come and take care of her.
Parenting little children as a #HCW in a pandemic:
You must make 2 schedules:
1. If everything goes ok
2. If/when ur #childcare falls thru the cracks q2-3weeks
I work in an extremely demanding job (ER doc in a pandemic), but after spending 3 days in a row taking care of my two wonderful toddlers with my husband working, I can confidently state that stay at home parenting is WAY harder. At least at work people occasionally do what I say.
My sister/nanny out with COVID, prepping my Lv II trauma center review (in 2 weeks), full clinical week… friend randomly texted this morning to see how this week is and volunteered to bring dinner over. 🙏🏻 Overwhelmed by my community support. #hcwsneedhelp
Yesterday I saw two former nurses who had left for greener pastures working back in the ER
Why were they back?
"Straight double time for per diem" ($$$)
When hospital administrators loosen the purse strings, workers come back and care improves