Clinicians on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic have been regular witnesses to trauma, death, and hardships, at a scale that most have never encountered. Long work hours and intense workloads add to the pressure. Most are unprepared to process this kind of trauma, which can affect clinicians for the rest of their lives. The Witness to Witness (W2W) Program seeks to help clinicians to process these experiences and come to terms with what they’ve been witness to. In episode one of “We Do Hope,” Kaethe Weingarten, PhD, founder and Director of the Witness to Witness Program with Migrant Clinicians Network, is joined by Moises Arjona Jr., MS, Collective Impact Director of Unidos Contra La Diabetes and Pamela Secada, MPH, W2W Senior Program Manager, to explain what it means to be a witness and how that can affect those who are overexposed to hardship.
