What's driving the pandemic's health care exodus
1 in 5 American health care workers have left the profession since the pandemic hit.
The pandemic has pushed what was already a tough situation into crisis mode. And as psychiatrist Wendy Dean sees it, this is more than just burnout.
She says health care workers are suffering a moral injury.
"It’s that essence of: I knew what I was getting into. I know I’d work long hours. I knew I’d see some horrible, horribly hard things," Dean says. "What I didn’t know was how hard it was going to be for me to get my patients the care they needed."
Today, On Point: Why health care workers are hurting — and leaving.