Opinion: As the pandemic rages, demoralization deflates health care workers

“There’s a surge in calls. We need more backup,” read the text I got last week from my colleague Mona Masood, a psychiatrist and co-founder of the Physician Support Line, a peer-to-peer hotline that she, I, and others developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

With 700 volunteer psychiatrists staffing the hotline, my first thought was, “How is that possible?”

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