There is a great deal of evidence suggesting loss of morale among doctors and nurses.
The moral of the people in these medical professions seems to have declined as politicians, bureaucrats and “administrators” gained more authority and power to control their lives and professional services.
Medicine used to be all about doing the best one could to help individual patients when they were ill.
The difficulties, long hours and sacrifices were rewarded by a sense of deserved satisfaction, self-esteem and pride for being of real service to real people in times of real need.
Then along came the politicians, bureaucrats and other “outsiders” with their ambitions for prestige authority, power and control of everything and everyone else including medical services.
Patients were renamed “consumers” and their medical professionals were renamed “providers” whose obedience and loyalty was owed to the politicians, bureaucrats and administrators… The former self-regulation of these professions for the benefit of the patients was taken over by the people in governments for the benefit of “the state” and their idiotic ambition of a “health care delivery system” like a fast food enterprise that they owned, controlled and managed.
The once sacred , confidential and personal relationships between doctors, nurses and the patients they cared for were destroyed and the only real incentive left was THE MONEY that could be earned by obedience to the new bosses regardless of whether it was best for the “consumers” or not.
Unfortunately, money cannot replace the lost sense of satisfaction, self-esteem and deserved pride derived from serving and caring for other individual human beings and that is why the “health care delivery system” is such a failure.
I used to be a doctor, experienced the decline and destruction of the medical profession, got out, did something else that was more satisfying and rewarding and have not regretted it at all. I am not surprised that so many other medical professionals are choosing to leave this corrupted system.
Good on you, retired DOCTOR ………….. for your honesty and openness. Many more doctors should be standing up to the travesties of government and unelected elites’ dictates and controls over the medical profession.
cur-covid, our joke of a ministry of health, the past minister of health, and those in the w.h.o, just for starters.
You Sir, took the Hippocratic Oath (along with the rest of them). Pity that so many doctors, and world wide, do not live up to that Oath.
Again, good on you for being honest. You make cur-covid look like a scumbag …………… of which he is.