For radiologic technologist Sara Beedy, working through the COVID pandemic highlighted the neglect that healthcare professionals felt — and still feel — in terms of wellness support.
On Christmas Day, 2020, Beedy’s full-time staff role at a Texas hospital went far beyond chest X-rays for COVID patients, as she held their hands, comforted them, and set up a FaceTime call with one patient’s family so he could say goodbye to them before passing away. Beedy left her 16-hour shift mentally and physically exhausted.
