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Bringing hospitals to the brink of capacity and care. a lot of people are confused what to doth believe. many doctors are doing a major juggling act given the circumstances. and yet i think we're also potentially seeing and hearing from doomsday doctors who push people even toward more fear, anxiety and depression. i'm not trying to call out anybody in particular, i think this is obviously really nuanced, but is there an undo amount of fear being spread, especially in those twitter threads and facebook posts and corners of available tv where if it feels like covid zero is the only goal, covid ...

But i want to know what you see firsthand. you treat patients. they come in and ask you about covid. what are you hearing? what are you seeing personally? >> as you just opened with, brian, this is a parallel pandemic of mental health in crisis. we are bathing in fear. people have been worried and panicked necessarily because of the threat of covid-19, which is absolutely real and present. that said, those of us in the medical profession, particularly those of us who are patient facing, who help people every day understand their unique vulnerability for disease, whether it's from covid or canc...

Anxieties and own fears and take a moment to reflect on how they're messaging and how they're potentially doing harm by, again, sharing fear-based messaging, then we really, really should take a break. because look doctors are people too. we are seeing a mental health crisis among health care providers as well. we're human. it's normal to feel anxious. it's normal to want to share our stress with others. but when it's affecting people's everyday behaviors and affecting the way they feel and their decisions, fear isn't motivating. fear just makes people afraid. for me to motivate someone to get...

I think the word cult, people have these ideas of what a cult is but, again, if you point to the techniques, tactics used, they're exactly the same. i think that people are vulnerable. we live in a time where it's hard to understand this world. technology has made a huge change much like the industrial revolution. so any time when there's social unrest, i think people are more vulnerable and there's fear and there's anger about what's going on in the world, and people want easy answers to these questions and they get sucked in and then they get constantly fed by all of these media sources that...

Your risk for covid is as different as someone else's. and revving the emotional engines of people's anxiety only does harm. >> what's a specific example of that kind of fear, that kind of pa panic porn you have seen recently? >> a lot of doctors are talking about what if your child ends up in the cicu and you die from th same covid infection and you're parentless? that's not covid. listen, i don't describe ill-intent as doctors. i think most people went into physicians to help people, and a lot are trying to offset their own anxiety by broadcasting to the public the wider anxiety in the air. ...