When helping hurts

It’s time to start helping the helpers

There’s a quote from Fred Rogers that resurfaces in every crisis. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,” Mr. Rogers said, “my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”

In 2021, PBS re-upped the quote in a short video introducing their effort to laud the Covid helpers.

That same year, 334,000 health care providers, including 117,000 physicians, left the workforce in the United States. To put that in context, it…