Vulnerability Is Necessary for Healthcare Professionals [medpagetoday.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/15/205:05 PM

By Tracy O' Connell, MedPage Today, May 5, 2020

As someone trained in Brené Brown's curriculum for helping professionals, vulnerability is my jam.

As a physician? Not so much.

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown already burned-out healthcare providers into the arena with more than just a shortage of equipment. We are now expected to risk our own lives caring for others, which was not part of the original job description. Medical providers are not Marines, nor do we work for the Secret Service; we never signed up to take a bullet for another. Yet, we are asked to "be brave" and show up anyway. And we are doing it.

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