I think those are incredibly difficult questions as well. We have colleagues who are working 60- to 70-hour weeks, working until 10 o'clock with a patient in crisis. Most of us who are in practice don't turn our phones off, which we probably should. We're trying to balance the work and what we know about burnout and depression in our own professional lives and provide the care.
In terms of boosting the care available, I really believe in leveraging technology and having team-based approaches to care. Too often the burden is on one clinician, which probably isn't a great thing. I am a firm believer in team-based approaches and the efficiency of finding the right professional for the right person when there is time.
Clearly, we need to educate and protect our frontline workers, be they mental health or otherwise health workers, but that won't necessarily address the gap. The gap has to be addressed with probably an increase in funding, but then finding an efficient way to use that funding, not just continuing to throw resources at a problem that is struggling.