Fear Clouds Doctors’ Thinking. One Remedy Is As Old As Medicine Itself.

Forbes April 1, 2020
Alison Escalante

The fight or flight response impairs cognition, but camaraderie restores it.

Doctors are facing a new kind of stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it’s not the overwhelming number of patients. It is unprecedented for U.S. doctors to fear for their own lives at work. That fear has a uniquely negative impact on the brain.

U.S. healthcare workers are facing the extraordinary in the COVID-19 pandemic. Never has this generation faced such a widespread strain on the healthcare system, and never have we done it so poorly equipped to help patients. But it’s the critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is forcing doctors and nurses to face personal life threat.

ER doctors are trained to face the...

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