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

Cars into work is a challenge. >> it's like a veteran comes back from the war. he may be out of the war, but he hasn't left that war. >> reporter: i mean it's crazy to me that you're talking about a health care job as if it was walking into a battlefield. >> it's a battlefield. it is a battlefield. >> reporter: dr. jack lyons often thinks of the pandemic's 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 now come to our interactions with distrust. >> reporter: yeah, that feel of good will is gone...

Refer to it as moral injury. >> reporter: what do you mean by that? >> you want to help folks, and now that folks aren't getting vaccinated, they're not believing us. they're questioning our education and our background. it's hurtful. we're exhausted, we're 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. >> it's like when a veteran comes back from the war, he may be out of the war, but he hasn't left that war. >> reporter: it's crazy to me that you're talking ab...

>> 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. >> what's it been like to work in this atmosphere? >> it's exhausting. it's frequently heartbreaking. it is demoralizing at times. >> dr. lyons says it's 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? >> absolutely. folks act as if they can come into the hospital and request any certain therapy they wa...