Trauma On The Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling
The stresses some hospital workers face right now compares to that of a war. Recent research suggests they could be among the hardest hit by the mental health after-effects of the pandemic.
The scene at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx is unlike anything psychiatrist Bruce Schwartz has seen. Everyone, even interns and nurses in training, have been tapped to tend to the flood of COVID-19 patients, who are crashing and dying at rates comparable to the front line of a battlefield.
His hospital treats a highly vulnerable minority population — where rates of obesity and diabetes also run high —
