Renewable Revolution

NOTE: The reality is that many health professionals in the United States have already left medicine. At least, they have left direct patient care for one of the many administrative positions that exist in our highly bureaucratic and complex market-driven system.

Even before the pandemic, the healthcare system in the United States was broken. Physician burnout was rising and a new term entered the field, “moral injury,” a term typically reserved for soldiers in the military. How long can one last in a system that runs counter to everything you were trained to do – to provide care to patients?

So many changes need to be made right now, and as soon as we realize they aren’t going to be made unless we make them and that we have the power to make them, we can get to the work of creating a society that supports life instead of allowing the making of profits in a system that is designed to extinguish life, whether directly or indirectly.  – MF