Lubbock trauma surgeon opens up about pandemic PTSD
Lubbock trauma surgeon opens up about pandemic PTSD By Blair Sabol | May 14, 2021 at 9:47 PM CDT - Updated May 14 at 10:36 PM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Though things are looking up, millions of healthcare workers are now coming to terms with the stress they have experienced during the pandemic.
Including Lubbock trauma surgeon, Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall.
“It will never be the same. Because we all have this, this small graveyard in our minds, not only of the patients that we couldn’t save, but of the parts of ourselves that we couldn’t save,” she said.
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‘Why Do I Put My Life on the Line?’ Pandemic Trauma Haunts Health Workers.
Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall scrubs her arms and hands at Texas Tech University Medical Center. Nationwide, doctors and other health professionals have been called on to work double duty during the pandemic.
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Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, 34, was a newly minted surgeon when the COVID-19 pandemic began. At first, like thousands of other health care professionals, she worked tirelessly in crisis mode.
But by last fall, she was experiencing random and repeated physiological symptoms, including a racing heart and dimmed vision. She diagnosed herself as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.