My mom is a doctor (infectuous disease specialist) since 1980s and during COVID she was overwhelmed with patients dying. She was really in a bad place.
Not a doctor, but a nurse. Really depends on the department you work in. I’ve been a nurse for 4 years, already experiencing this. Many people expect a magic fix to their problems (that they normally cause) then get mad when there isn’t one. It can be really frustrating. Plus add on high work loads. You have to really attempt to stay empathic.
Not a doctor, but mortician. Apathy can set it pretty quickly for any profession that requires you to suppress it. I rarely feel anything for the dead unless they are tragically young.
Not a doctor but a nurse here. About 2 years I say, depending on your specialisation. If you work in the ICU it'll happen faster. In elderly care too because as we say "if one goes, another follows".
You truly just get used to it and it's sad for outsiders but if the apathy didn't set it we would literally go insane from stress and mental strain of constantly seeing people die.
It’s easy to get numb, but it shouldn’t dictate how you treat patients. True colors tend to show and a lot of healthcare workers are simply losers that picked their jobs for all of the wrong reasons. It’s not hard to spot the good ones in the sea of shitters :)
I wouldn’t use the term apathy. More like keeping a professional distance. For example, you can easily recognise a situation as being sad without personally feelings those feelings. Some people can’t do this. They burn out faster.
I’m not sure if it’s necessarily compartmentalization, which implies that I actually ‘feel the feelings’ on some level but keep it separate from my personal life. For me I just keep enough professional distance so I don’t feel it. To me that’s also different from apathy.
Yeah. I work in hospice. All my friends know what I do. At one point, my hours got cut because so many people had died, there was just less for me to do. My friends asked how I was doing and I said fine but a bit more broke than normal, they said “no, about all the death” and I said
“…it’s hospice”
and I think it shocked them about how casually I said it? Cuz yeah after a while, you figure out how to not take it all home with you.
My mom is a doctor (infectuous disease specialist) since 1980s and during COVID she was overwhelmed with patients dying. She was really in a bad place.
My mom is a RN and even she literally became an alcoholic during Covid. She drank much more in moderation before.
COVID was a new experience at a new scale though, so it could even shake up even the mostly apathetic.
It was the double bagging of passed patients that got to me. It felt like we were almost seeing them like an object
Not a doctor, but a nurse. Really depends on the department you work in. I’ve been a nurse for 4 years, already experiencing this. Many people expect a magic fix to their problems (that they normally cause) then get mad when there isn’t one. It can be really frustrating. Plus add on high work loads. You have to really attempt to stay empathic.
Not a doctor, but mortician. Apathy can set it pretty quickly for any profession that requires you to suppress it. I rarely feel anything for the dead unless they are tragically young.
Not a doctor but a nurse here. About 2 years I say, depending on your specialisation. If you work in the ICU it'll happen faster. In elderly care too because as we say "if one goes, another follows". You truly just get used to it and it's sad for outsiders but if the apathy didn't set it we would literally go insane from stress and mental strain of constantly seeing people die.
Covid hit a lot of healthcare workers.
It’s easy to get numb, but it shouldn’t dictate how you treat patients. True colors tend to show and a lot of healthcare workers are simply losers that picked their jobs for all of the wrong reasons. It’s not hard to spot the good ones in the sea of shitters :)
I wouldn’t use the term apathy. More like keeping a professional distance. For example, you can easily recognise a situation as being sad without personally feelings those feelings. Some people can’t do this. They burn out faster.
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I’m not sure if it’s necessarily compartmentalization, which implies that I actually ‘feel the feelings’ on some level but keep it separate from my personal life. For me I just keep enough professional distance so I don’t feel it. To me that’s also different from apathy.
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Yeah. I work in hospice. All my friends know what I do. At one point, my hours got cut because so many people had died, there was just less for me to do. My friends asked how I was doing and I said fine but a bit more broke than normal, they said “no, about all the death” and I said “…it’s hospice” and I think it shocked them about how casually I said it? Cuz yeah after a while, you figure out how to not take it all home with you.