Compassion Fatigue

Amidst a raging pandemic and skyrocketing budgetary deficits, Canadian actor Elliot Page came out as transgender this week. He described the joy he felt in announcing this as profound, but also fragile. Within the trans community, fear is pervasive. Despite the progress we've made as a society, fear remains.

As we begin to glimpse the holiday season, healthcare workers in Quebec hospitals are already at the end of their rope. “We lost a lot of soldiers since there were outbreaks in several hospitals. Currently, there is a strong community transmission within the nursing staff,” observed Dr. Gilbert Boucher, president of the association of specialists in emergency medicine of Quebec and an emergency physician at the Montreal Heart Institute.