2/ Imagine spending hours trying to keep someone alive, knowing their family is waiting anxiously for news. Imagine holding a phone so loved ones can say goodbye, because infection-control restrictions prevent them from being there. Imagine doing everything your training and experience allow, and still losing the patient. Then imagine returning for another shift. And another. This was not every healthcare worker’s experience, nor was every hospital overwhelmed. But in the hardest-hit settings, these scenes became painfully familiar. Clinicians are trained to confront suffering and death. They are not immune to its emotional consequences. And during the pandemic, many faced something especially difficult: the feeling that they could no longer provide the kind of personal, compassionate care they believed their patients deserved. There was often no time to grieve one loss before another patient needed them. What happens when experiences like these accumulate over weeks, months, and successive waves?

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