Dr. Ruth Carroll, DNP, RN
4 min readOct 18, 2020

America, check on your friends in healthcare- we are not ok

The healthcare crisis no one saw coming

COVID-19 slapped America square in the jaw this year. All of America began to brace for the unknown. No one knew what to expect. And now, the latent effects on patients’ health and the effects on the medical field have started surfacing.

The American healthcare system was already overloaded and was chaotic at best. Medical expenses have…