Editing Laurie Schmidt (section)

==Chronology==
===Before the Story===
Met up with Rowan in high school and got togather.

She likely wrote an anonymous article about elder care for the Kennet newsletter.<ref>Opinion Article: Difficult Care, Opinion, Name Withheld.<br><br>There is no secret that we face a significant brain drain in rural Canada.  Every election cycle it comes up in the news and it is soon forgotten.  I have worked in healthcare since I was twenty and I have watched budgets getting cut, Doctors & RNs leaving for greener pastures, and I see the people who stay getting stretched thinner and thinner.  This entire time, I’ve wondered what the breaking point might look like.
<br><br>I worry that as of this spring, we’re seeing that breaking point manifest.  Rates of patient violence have skyrocketed, and it is hard to know why.  When I talk with coworkers in the field, they agree that something is wrong, but the more anyone asserts that they have a firm answer, the less certain I am they’re right.  I’ve heard explanations that range from the ongoing culture war to the change in social media or even, privately, the most kind-hearted nurses wondering aloud if their exhaustion with the current state of affairs is changing them for the worse, with  vulnerable patients recognizing that change and pre-emptively reacting to it.<br><br>I don’t think that’s true, but I do think we need help.  At Kennet General we’re seeing RNs and Doctors get sidelined by injuries, as if they were athletes in a contact sport.  We reach out for more and too few of the bright and talented are willing to come out to a small town of five thousand people.  I don’t have a single colleague who hasn’t voiced thoughts of quitting or changing to another position or city.  Half of those who stay seem to do so because they care about their  community and they know nobody is coming out to replace them<br><br>It was always my belief that the breaking point would be an event.  Something tangible.  Instead, it feels like a creeping sentiment.  A mass hysteria creeping over a body of patients that pushes people to their edges, and a frustration in healthcare workers, that can manifest in ugly behavior I’ve privately reported, knowing that little will be done.  We simply can’t afford to lose even the bad ones.<br><br>It is with a whimper, not a bang, that this collapses.  In my department, there are five women of retirement age.  When one quits or gets hurt, four more will leave, and the department will be empty.  What then?  The possibility scares me. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/22 Kennet Newsletter]</ref>
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===Story Start===

===Toronto Activities===

===Return to Jacob's Bell===

===The Lordship Contest===

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