Essential workers during covid-19: how quickly we forget

There were many heroes during the covid-19 pandemic. Not only did the majority not wear capes, they also did not wear scrubs. We need to celebrate those who kept us fed, watered, supplied, and safe. They were the very definition of “essential workers”: every bit as much as us healthcare workers. As such, there was distress to hear that several staff from a hospital’s food services have been “let go” because their services were “contracted out.”In dispassionate economic terms it probably makes sense. Hospitals can focus on healthcare delivery, and there are theoretical savings for customers and coffers. But without these staff, we categorically would not have made it through the greatest healthcare crisis of the last half century: essential then. Essential now?We rely on readily available food, but nowadays, the hospital—and society in general—marches on its coffee. Our hospital coffee line is the closest we have to a “third…
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