Who Will Continue to Take Care of America?
5 min readJul 15, 2020
During an interview on the wellbeing of healthcare workers, a reporter asked me how I felt about my mental health as things were opening up in Illinois. I was experiencing a slow return to normalcy in my worklife, seeing patients return to the Emergency Department for what we call our “bread and butter” cases — presentations I felt comfortable and familiar with, like chest pain, abdominal pain or urinary complaints…