Behind the story of emergency room closures across the country are the workers impacted, like “Sue,” a 25-year veteran nurse in Ontario who openly weeps about her decision to leave front-line medical care.
The 52-year-old, who has been independently verified to have been a nurse by CTVNews.ca but asked to protect her identity, said she loved her job caring for patients, having worked as an operating room nurse, in surgical care wards, and in rehab and palliative care.
But since February, she has been off work on stress leave and is seeing a psychologist after suffering burnout.
Is there anything that isn’t falling apart in Canada?
