As pressure from the pandemic wanes, health care workers cope with burnout and a fractured community
Bill Engle is a registered nurse at St. Mary Medical Center. - MONICA HERNDON/TNS
July 08, 2021
PHILADELPHIA —Patients with COVID-19 aren't filling hospitals anymore. Fears of bringing the virus home and infecting loved ones has largely passed. For Bill Engle, though, a nurse at St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, the emotional wounds inflicted by the pandemic remain close to the surface. "If I start talking about it, and I start to think what it was like, then it affects me," he said, his voice cracking. "Every day going in to work and knowing I was going to be in that N95 and seeing these people struggle and how scared they were and the physical toll that they took, i...