Erschienen in:
22.06.2020 | Editorial Perspective
Gratitude and Good Outcomes: Rediscovering Positivity and Perspective in an Uncertain Time
verfasst von:
Wen T. Shen, Julie Ann Sosa
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2020
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Excerpt
We are living through a period of unprecedented uncertainty and anxiety. While the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has not been overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, the steady stream of troubling news from around the world over the past few months has been stressful and at times overwhelming. The majority of UCSF surgeons have been sidelined during the pandemic; our trauma and acute care surgeons have remained active, but many of us have sat waiting due to the combination of postponed elective operations and the dearth of COVID-19 patients requiring surgical care [
1]. We have closely followed the reports coming out of China, Italy, and especially New York City, horrified by the numbers, stories and images. Many of us have felt a bewildering mix of emotions: grief, frustration, guilt and helplessness as we sit idle, knowing that so many of our colleagues elsewhere are struggling and so many patients are dying despite the best efforts of their caregivers. The fact that the pandemic is disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations and laying bare the inequities of our health care system, coupled with recent renewed awareness of systemic societal racism, have only heightened our sense of despair and anger [
2]. …
