疫苗接种率正在攀升，COVID-19病例正在降低。虽然这肯定是我们大多数人的一种解脱，但许多卫生保健工作者正在为大规模的大规模后果做好准备。这些专业人员并没有从情感和身体上耗尽20个月的急需的缓刑，而是被迫在类似的压力下工作，以应对现在再次安排的程序。
There is abundant evidence of increasingly high levels of stress and burnout among all health care workers in the system.
National and local television, radio, and print media have been covering the situation extensively with horror stories of doctors working around the clock with no end in sight, and nurses burning out in unprecedented numbers. The warnings are consistent: We are headed towards a full-blown crisis.
不幸的是，这仅讲述了故事的一半。在加拿大，有42％的卫生保健工作者既不是护士，也不是医生，而是来自其他同样重要的专业。我们忽略了他们对危险的幸福感。
Every time these professionals see “doctors and nurses” used to refer to health care workers, they shudder, reminded that they are being ignored yet again. While this media shorthand may be convenient, it only serves to reinforce the alarming tendency of health care decision makers to make policy based on considerations that exclude almost half the workforce.
我们已经看到了健康政策的潜在致命后果，在大流行中几乎忘记了一半的卫生劳动力。
医疗辐射技术人员（MRTS）一直是经常受到尊敬的职业之一。尽管许多加拿大人对MRT一词不熟悉，但大多数人在生活中的某个时候都依靠他们作为其医疗团队的一部分。MRT是进行X射线射线，核医学，MRI和CT扫描的专业人员，可让医生诊断和提供医疗。他们还对癌症患者进行放射治疗。
MRTs have been on the frontlines of the pandemic, providing the imaging required to monitor and manage COVID-19 patients, and through all the extreme challenges of this pandemic, have maintained the integrity of the health services for other diseases and conditions.
MRTs are the third-largest contingent of health care professionals working in hospitals, and they also work in clinics, cancer centers, and other settings across the country.
在整个大流行中，许多捷运被迫为获得足够的个人防护设备（PPE），疫苗优先级而战，并承认他们也在前线工作，并将生命置于对其他加拿大人的福祉的危险之中。尽管它们对诊断和护理的数量和重要性。
To add insult to injury, they are now being ignored, yet again, in conversations about health care workers who are struggling to do their work in the face of enormous challenges to their mental health. For one public example, Quebec Premier Francois Legault, in defending his move to provide relief to Quebec nurses, explained that this relief was not being extended to other health care workers and compared them to convenience store workers doing overtime.
我希望这类陈述令人惊讶。
According to our recent survey of MRTs, two-thirds of respondents reported high levels of emotional exhaustion (a symptom of burnout). It’s time MRTs and other health care professionals were included in policies and programs that address burnout in our health system.
This month celebrates MRT Week, a chance to recognize the indispensable work that these tens of thousands of health care professionals do every day to keep the COVID response strong, to keep the health care system running, to battle the backlogs in the system and give us the chance to get back to normal.
As we begin to look at how health care workers are going to deal with the immediate future, conversations and solutions that focus exclusively on doctors and nurses will have devastating consequences and ultimately undermine efforts to address the crisis.
我们永远不会通过忽略近一半的付出代价来解决我们的医疗危机。
Irving Gold是加拿大医疗辐射技术人员协会首席执行官。
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