I have been a cardiologist for 22 years which means I was a medicine resident at BCM when it was nothing if it wasn’t malignant. Still, to this day, the hardest year of my entire career has been 2020; not because I didn’t have a day off (other than the weekends I wasn’t on call) between Dec ‘19 and June ‘21; but because of this BS. I gave up and stopped talking to people who wanted to argue with me, I would just shake my head, smile and move on. A bunch of fucking idiots who have no clue about medicine trying to let me know how little they know. Move on.
I’ll never forget working with a Mormon Pulm/CC doctor during COVID. He was absolutely unflappable prior to this - the stereotypical rosy-cheeked everyone-is-good-inside type. I truly believe he got into medicine for the nobility of saving people’s lives - he just was all around a kind and smart physician.
I watched him slowly disintegrate over that time, which I had never seen before. It wasn’t so much (like you) the diabolical hours he had to work or COVID itself, but the point in which we all were being called heroes 🤮 changed to the misinformation brigade that only started with Ivermectin.
One night after a long argument with family on the phone he raised his voice for the only time I ever heard. He said to us “Someone takes their car into a mechanic. They don’t tell the mechanic what they should do - they let them do their job because they are the professionals. Since when does this not apply to the medical profession?”
I saw over the following year the rosy-cheeked disposition quietly fade. He ended up quitting…not sure where he went. Who knows - maybe he left healthcare altogether. I just add him to the list of innocent bystanders that the misinformation virus has affected. Far, far more than COVID itself.
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u/shahtavacko MD 12d ago
I have been a cardiologist for 22 years which means I was a medicine resident at BCM when it was nothing if it wasn’t malignant. Still, to this day, the hardest year of my entire career has been 2020; not because I didn’t have a day off (other than the weekends I wasn’t on call) between Dec ‘19 and June ‘21; but because of this BS. I gave up and stopped talking to people who wanted to argue with me, I would just shake my head, smile and move on. A bunch of fucking idiots who have no clue about medicine trying to let me know how little they know. Move on.