Yes, Madam Chair, I don't know if I just have a minute. There was this point about the burnout. I found this question very interesting, because I think lots of health care professionals, including me, may have experienced some level of burnout in the past few years.
I've thought about this quite a lot. I was listening to Dr. Jetly when he talked about our not turning our phones off, which is what most people do. I just came back from vacation and every time I'm on vacation, I find my phone is constantly on...especially from colleagues whose kids I'm looking after. I find it causes a lot of stress. It's easy to turn off your notifications for emails when you're going to be away, but when it comes to phones you can't do that.
I think we should really start talking to medical students, because there are lots of mistakes that we made that are hard to undo now when it comes to boundaries. For me, the big message is boundaries and learning from the onset about protecting one's boundaries and being mindful about those. For a lot of us, especially when I started, we were saying, “Okay, health care providers, you do anything to support your other colleagues,” but when there are no boundaries, then we find it has that a domino effect, and we end up burning out. It's hard to now tell the same people, “Please, don't do this at this time.”
I think at this point that could be one of the things that we could look at with our medical students. When they start, they shouldn't make some of the mistakes we made.