According to a new survey, most doctors are feeling fatigue after a year of dealing with Covid-19 while nearly as many say the vaccine rollout is negatively affecting their mental health. The poll was conducted by the Canadian Medical Association, but Dr. Nancy Nielsen is finding a similar impact among local health care professionals.
"It's been awful," said Nielsen on how doctors were forced to jumble schedules and patient priorities when the pandemic emerged one year ago.
"The patients, who were not acutely ill and in a hospital, were just not able to be taken care of."
Medical practices were disrupted. Professionals scrambled to meet the growing needs of the sick.
"Doctors died, you know that. Nurses died in caring for these patients," said Nielsen, a former President of the American Medical Association.
"The impact, the fatigue is for everyone."
