Like a lot of people, I lost my primary care physician to the pandemic. He didn’t die, it’s nothing like that. From what I can tell he was done with it all, same as so many other healthcare professionals. Extreme burnout among medical professionals isn’t as rampant as it was when COVID-19 was tearing across the world unchecked, but it’s still a major concern. Have you tried to find a PCP lately? The next one I landed quit within the year. The doctor I'm currently looking at has a nine-month wait.
But these are champagne problems; at least I have health insurance. We all might have it by now if the concept of universal healthcare hadn’t been politicized into nuclear toxicity. Then again, most of us couldn’t have imagined that a lethal virus or vaccines or wearing masks would become partisan hot zones.
