Maybe I'll do all of the above, briefly.
There has been a certain common theme running through the different testimonies about how the nature of pressure has changed with regard to health care. There's more information to know than ever before. That's a good thing. We're able to help patients in ways that we weren't able to help them five or 10 years ago.
There are higher expectations as the consumer revolution that has transformed other aspects of the economy now transforms the health care sector.
With it then comes the challenge of balancing out what we want of our health care workers and what we can reasonably expect of them. I think when we talk about physicians—and of course physicians aren't the only health care workers—things become even more challenging because we've been taught for so long that we shouldn't get ill, we should simply muddle along and so on, as though physicians were somehow no longer human and above that.
When we think about what we want in a health care workforce, I think we need to balance these things out and also recognize that while COVID will come and go, health care has fundamentally changed. I think for a moment of the way people practised in the 1970s, when Marcus Welby, M.D. was the most popular TV show in North America. Roughly one in four households tuned in to this American show. If somebody had a heart attack, Marcus Welby would suggest bed rest because there wasn't really that much else to be done. Certainly, one didn't read a lot of papers in order to prescribe four or six weeks worth of bed rest.
Today, of course, we have clot-busting materials. There is good evidence that antidepressants for people at risk would help in the post-MI era. All these things come together.
What am I driving at? There has been a common theme of recognition of burning out and mental health disorders, but also a common place for us to need to find innovative solutions as well.