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Deflated health care workers, desperate patients clash over alternative Covid treatments

Cars into work is a challenge. >> its like a veteran comes back from the war. he may be out of the war, but he hasnt left that war. >> reporter: i mean its crazy to me that youre talking about a health care job as if it was walking into a battlefield. >> its a battlefield. it is a battlefield. >> reporter: dr. jack lyons often thinks of the pandemics early days when grateful communities banged pots and pans to honor front line health care workers. >> the vast majority of patients we take care of...

Refer to it as moral injury. >> reporter: what do you mean by that? >> you want to help folks, and now that folks arent getting vaccinated, theyre not believing us. theyre questioning our education and our background. its hurtful. were exhausted, were tired, and so we have been morally injured. >> reporter: chatman says some nurses have endured so much abuse that even getting them to walk from their cars into work is a challenge. >> its like when a veteran comes back from the war, he may be out ...

>> dr. jack lyons spends his days treating covid-19 patients fighting foyer their lives inside st. loud hospital in minnesota. like so many other doctors he feels the strain. >> whats it been like to work in this atmosphere? >> its exhausting. its frequently heartbreaking. it is demoralizing at times. >> dr. lyons says its also getting hostile as patients are demanding bogus medical treatments. are people treating these treatments like they are picking items off of a menu at a restaurant? >> abs...

>> its a battlefield. it is a battlefield. >> reporter: dr. jack lyons often thinks of the pandemics early days when grateful communities banged pots and pans to honor frontline workers. >> the vast majority of patients we take care of now come to our interactions with distrust. >> reporter: yeah, that feeling of goodwill is gone. >> long since dissipated. >> reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, st. cloud, minnesota. >> what reporting, ed lavandera. thank you to your team for that. let me bring in barba...

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