'People have lost their empathy for others': Health care providers angry, bitter about vaccine hesit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

hesitancy as COVID-19 cases continue to overwhelm area hospitals

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Doctors and nurses have had enough.

Nineteen months on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed many of them to more death and misery than they might have expected in an entire career. They’ve overheard patients’ haunting final phone calls to family before intubation. They’ve seen sick mothers lose their babies shortly after birth. They’ve kept vigil over frightened patients, dying in isolation. And they’ve heard it time and again – the regrets of so many, who concede in their final breaths that they should have gotten vaccinated.

Some of these health care heroes are giving up. And it’s really not surprising. They’re exhausted from the latest surge of cases that could have been prevented – and angry that so many who are hospitalized with COVID didn’t take the most basic step to protect themselves.

COVID vaccines have been readily available for months. Yet, only 52% of Ohioans are fully vaccinated — and 95% of those hospitalized with COVID are not among them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/people-have-lost-their-empathy-for-others-health-care-providers-angry-bitter-about-vaccine-hesitancy-as-covid-19-cases-continue-to-overwhelm-area-hospitals/ar-AAQoezp

[tanyev]

1. Not all people.

But unfortunately most of the people hospitals are now seeing in their COVID units.

[pandr32]

2. "...so many...didn't take the most basic step to protect themselves."

Super emphasis needed on 'the most basic step', because that's what getting a simple vaccination is.

[Ray Bruns]

3. As we used to say in the navy, Oh Well.

Yes, I have lost any empathy for morons who won't get a simple shot.

[elias7]

4. We're bitter that people are not being held criminally liable for misinfo/disinfo

We are seeing more Covid in NH than ever before.

[Skittles]

5. the people who have no empathy are the covidiots themselves

yes indeed

[marie999]

6. Institutes of Health, we are losing many healthcare workers to PTSD and/or burnout syndrome.

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[Aristus]

8. I wish patients would just tell me up front that they have no intention of getting vaccinated.

Then I can drop-kick them out of my clinic before they waste any more of my time.

Early last week, I had a patient come in claiming to want "information about the COVID-19 vaccine." I thought: Great. She wants to get vaccinated, but has valid questions about the immunization. I spent fifteen minutes telling her about the vaccine, only at the end for her to hand me a form for religious exemption for vaccination. I stopped being polite then, told her point-blank "I don't do religious exemptions", and walked out of the exam room.

On Friday, a patient came in for a routine clinic visit, and the electronic health record popped up that he was due for the flu and COVID-19 vaccination. He declined. I asked him what his concerns were, then spent ten minutes or so addressing them with the appropriate scientific information. He agreed to get immunized, so I let my clinical team know, and went to my office to chart the visit. My MA Supervisor came back and told me the patient backed out of immunization after all.

I was livid.

Look, assholes, if you're not going to get vaccinated, at least don't darken my clinic doorway and waste my time like that...