For providers with PTSD, the trauma of COVID-19 isn’t over

When COVID-19 hit Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital in March 2020, Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, MD, shifted from training in trauma and surgical critical care to working 80-hour weeks in a COVID-19 intensive care unit. “We were offering the best we had, but patients just kept dying anyway — and then more would come,” she recalls.