Dr. Hila Korech, anchor of News 13, announced this evening (Wednesday) during the broadcast of her decision to resign from her position as a doctor. According to her, this is “a hard blow to someone who does not know what it means to say ‘no’ in her life and prefers to spit blood, literally, than to give up or not complete a task.”
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“A few months ago, I realized that the day before my shift I was becoming a person I don’t want to be. I can’t smile, impatient with the environment, unforgiving with myself, walking around with a lump in my throat at best or crying a lot at worst,” she shared. Korah said that “the combination of heavy responsibility, great loneliness and the lack of hours of sleep, give their signals on the soul”.
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She further added: “The interns’ struggle emphasizes the number 26, but this is a lie – being on duty lasts many more hours, including the indescribable stress that precedes it and the blurring of consciousness that comes after it. A nightmare (that lasts for years) for those who want to function as a human being inside and outside the hospital.”
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“Even when I tried to be my sharpest self, I made mistakes. Not too traumatic, but I also went home with them, no matter how many moments of kindness I had with patients and their families. Even when I was the most inclusive and patient, I encountered violent people on an almost daily basis, even if I really tried not to judge them in their difficult situation – there is no reason in the world to behave like this to someone who is trying to help you even when I told myself that this is a period and that many have done it before me and many will do it after me, I could not find comfort,” she said.
She added that the price for her was so heavy that “the daily work, the solving of the medical puzzles, the well-being I was able to give to the patients and the hug and the immense satisfaction of helping others – paled.”
Korah stated that “we don’t deserve it, you don’t deserve it. They call us spoiled, whiners, leave us outside the negotiation table and endlessly put us through plans for human service conditions that don’t come to fruition. These are the people who take care of you, your parents, your children. They are finished.”