It seems every burnout story these days can be attributed to COVID-19 and how could it not? The pandemic exposed the existing protocols and care pathways in place for the past decade that were not dynamic enough to support the limited resources and out-of-date systems supporting current care models. Healthcare systems were oversubscribed and couldn’t deal with their ICU’s high acuity and saturation. It didn’t help that as more was understood about the virus, the rate of change and adoption of new processes remained slow.
