Anthony Back & Cynda Hylton Rushton: Lessons from the Frontlines of Healthcare: What COVID has Taught Us

In this Dharma Talk, Cynda and Tony speak to their personal experience as healthcare workers during the COVID pandemic. Dr. Anthony Back mentions the reckoning which the pandemic has brought, and how it has exposed the inherent structural inequities and racism, from the medical system to the White House. He also speaks to the role of practice -the body, and grief. Dr. Cynda Rushton points to the scarcity of the pandemic and the difficult decisions faced around allocation. Decisions ultimately based on structural racism inherent in these institutions. Furthermore, the institutional betrayal and scarring many clinicians underwent. She ends with the importance of moral resilience, and how the recognition of our shared integrity, gives us the power to stand together.