Author: Litzy (Page 1 of 5)

In Unit 2, I talked about the struggles and risks that doctors and nurses must go through in their careers. Of course, with this pandemic going on, we all learned that we should be grateful for the heroes who have put their life in danger, to help us. There is no doubt that the medical field is a very challenging career. Medical students must face several of challenges, with school and with their personal life, which eventually builds up stress, causing them to have trouble with learning, performance, technical, and nontechnical skills. Now, as the pandemic hit, it caused even more stress into the medical field. Doctors and nurses had to fight the virus and put themselves as risks and their loved ones to save others’ lives without knowing a solution to it. Apart from putting their lives at risks, came a bigger problem, they had low supplies on protective gear. They were told to use a “single-mask” for the entire day and then were told to use it for multiple shifts, which caused them to get bruises. Doctors and nurses shift changed drastically, from an 8-hour shift to a 12 or longer hour shift. They had to do an insane amount of work with very little time to rest.

This topic addresses to those people who are helping spread the virus. Because of their selfish actions, we are still having major cases of Covid-19. Yet, those people are the same people asking, “why isn’t the pandemic over?” They believe that all of this is a joke, when, it’s real life. People complain that they can’t breathe properly when they’re wearing the mask, but that doesn’t matter. Yes, it’s uncomfortable, but we need to follow the rules that the city gives us. I believe that the people who don’t wear a mask don’t really know the behind the scenes of what is really going on inside hospitals. It’s like they aren’t taking into consideration that doctors and nurses are risking their lives to help protect those that are sick and to prevent from other people getting sick. Those exact people who are against of wearing a mask, should put themselves in the doctors and nurses’ shoes. How would it feel that you’re risking your own life so that other people don’t get infected and there are people who don’t even want to use a mask and keep spreading the virus? It would feel frustrating.

Artist’s Statement

Although Covid-19 is a topic that everyone is talking about, I personally wanted to dive into the world of doctors and nurses and the struggles that they’ve suffered since the pandemic started. Before the pandemic, I don’t think we gave enough appreciation for them, we wouldn’t really “talk” about them and the amazing things they can do that others can’t. After doing some research, I think our appreciation for them has grown even more. They are heroes. They put their life on the line so that everyone else can be safe and help those that are in need. I decided that the genre was science and pandemic literature because it’s a way to explain the raw experience of panic, horror, and despair that people face every day. From having to be unemployed, losing their loved ones, people losing their homes, the increase on food banks, and most importantly, the struggles that both doctors and nurses must through and how it affected their life and career. On the other hand, the audience that I chose was the selfish people who help spread the virus by not wearing a mask. I just think that those people who are against of wearing a mask, don’t have a clue of what is going on behind the scenes in a hospital. On the news, you see people in ventilators, doctors and nurses checking up on patients, but you also see dead bodies being stored in the back of trucks because there is no space for them to be placed. Covid-19 is not a joke. Doctors and nurses wear masks every single day and sometimes they wear the same masks for various shifts because they are low on supplies. They risk their lives and their loved ones just to protect and prevent anyone else getting sick.