IANAD, but as a health professional, this is not what I signed up for. When I started work, I worked a 9to5 job. we did not work 24/7. We did a small amount of on-call work for overnights, but now you are expected to agree to work 24/7 to get a job. Some people might say that's just the product of a changing economy, but if I had known this would be expected of me when I started, and the toll it would take on my body, I would have chosen another job.
Getting back to doctors treating covid patients and the toll it takes, they didn't sign up for that either. They certainly didn't sign up to having to work double shifts or work for weeks on end because there are not enough staff to take care of the massive numbers of patients that are needing care and the lack of qualified staff to look after them. My own colleagues and I did not expect to be split in two groups in case someone in one group got covid, there would still be enough of us to provide the required service to the hospital while the other group was furloughed awaiting covid test results.
There are going to be a lot of front line workers abandoning their medical jobs because of burnout and overwork, and telling them to "suck it up, princess" is not helpful to them and quite frankly, nobody with that attitude should be managing staff in any situation, let alone a highly stressful and unusual one like Delta.
