Envision Healthcare’s Post

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Advocating for the frontline workers, physicians and healthcare workers who are taking care of patients on a daily basis for their physical and mental well-being in vision clinicians took to the laws of Congress to share their own stories with their own policymakers about the need for expanded access to better healthcare for our frontline commissions. The more that we advocate on Capitol Hill and in your state houses and others, the better we actually can make it we want this physician is portrayed as some form of. Of hero, you know who's there to who's wearing their, their white Cape, who's who's there to save the day and and then they have no problems whatsoever. But that's not entirely that's not true at any level. We have physical illnesses and mental illnesses That fact tends to get obscured. Although we think that the biggest part of medicine is what the time we spend with patients right now healthcare policy is getting made and nobody's hearing our side of things Doctors are human beings themselves they're going. They're they're, they're also going through their problems as well, and they need all the support that they can get. It is so important for clinicians to advocate on their own behalf because they are extremely credible voices within their communities and legislators listen to them because at the end of the day, one of the most important things to a good legislator is ensuring that their constituency is taken care of. I think it's important for them to understand how essential something like the Doctor Lorna Breen Act is. To the welfare of the current physicians, practicing physicians and the physicians that will come after us. At the same time, what what we really want to do is make things better for not just physicians, but also for patients. I think that's really the message that I want to deliver to the legislators. You know, advocacy is about experiences, right? And expressing the experiences that you have to other people that may not have had that experience. And it's just like any other issue, whether you're a teacher or an engineer or a plumber or an electrician, if there's an issue that you have and the legislature doesn't understand that issue, then they're dependent on you to come and explain to them and fill that knowledge gap. I think it's incredibly important that we are recognized as not just providers of healthcare, providers of people who can say lives, but also peoples whose lives are worthy of being saved. Envision Healthcare wants to ensure that. Clinicians that want to advocate for themselves are given the tools and opportunities to do it. And for the clinicians who just want to know someone's got their back, we want to make sure they know that we do and that we're engaging every day on their priorities and on their back.