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the people who show up when your body files a complaint and society forgets to say thank you.
means anyone whose job is keeping other people alive and functioning, from surgeons to the aide who empties bedpans at 3am.
from the term expanded past doctors and nurses once modern medicine realized it takes an army: technicians, aides, community workers, all essential, none optional.
global shortageworld needs 10 million more by 2030
pandemic tollover 100,000 died from covid worldwide
gender splitwomen are 70 percent of global workforce
pay gapsame workforce, men hold most leadership roles
for instance
florence nightingale — founded modern nursing during crimean war, 1850s
community health workers india — one million accredited activists reach rural villages
ebola responders liberia — doctors without borders, 2014 outbreak frontline
nhs nurses uk — clapped weekly during 2020 lockdowns, underpaid still