I found this post in Reddit, titled: My Dad is the strongest human I know. Back to 12hr days in ICU a week after his recovery from COVID.

Another doctor posted this below:

Fellow doctor here:

First of all, your dad is an amazing human. He was exposed (likely from a lack of PPE) and went right back into the frying pan.

Now with that out of the way…

I haven’t received a SINGLE penny from any stimulus package, small business loans, nada, because I make too much and because I refinanced my loans they are no longer federal loans. I can guarantee your dad is probably in the same situation. More stress, lack of protection and no additional compensation for showing up and taking care of sick patients.

A lot of doctors (except for maybe ICU and ER) are having to take paycuts. I had to sign a 12.5% pay cut this week, while administrators keep getting their bonuses.

Come on at least give doctors some kind of tax break. You don’t need to pay us more, call us heroes, etc. just let us keep more of what we already earned, at least for a couple of months.

This points out one of the great injustices in our system. We are asking women and men like these to work under impossible conditions, with impossible hours, for weeks on end – while our system is cutting their pay!

Then we have people protesting around the country claiming this is a hoax, the hospitals are not really full. There really isn’t any problem. It’s all hyped by the media. Are they really suggesting that the media is making this up:

— Bodybags starting to stack up outside nursing homes causing neighbors to complain about the stench?

— Refrigeration trucks lining up outside hospitals because they have no place to put the dead anymore.

— As of April 10, over 200 nurses and doctors have died worldwide from Covid-19.

All of this is world-wide media hype somehow created for what to benefit whom?

My (sarcastic) suggestion: Protestors and denialists should wear some identifier that lets the nurses and doctors know what their opinion was when they show up sick at the hospital. That way these whining doctors can decide not to treat the non-existing patients and go on to the real ones.