Ok I work in the medical field since 2010. I had several jobs and everywhere I went I always tried to do my job with my best efforts and providing what I think is quality.
While some place appreciated that and some not, most of the places were toxic and going to work meant to deal with bullshits daily. Being asked/imposed more hours (on regular basis), drama, people spending most of their day talking shit about other colleagues.
Now some months ago the chief of my department discovered he has cancer and while keeping his job, he drastically reduced his hours. The most back taking and toxic coworker saw an opportunity and geared up his behavior and basically destroyed our department morale. He talked shit about everyone, made small daily inconveniences or errors a big deal and reported everything to the owner of the place (I work at a small clinic) and even made up things. We got to the point that we all started seeking other jobs. Then seeing what was happening he quitted before us.
All of this meant months of feeling sick thinking about it, my personal life being destroyed by anxiety and my family suffered too.
Is it normal? Is this field cursed? I even thought of changing field and earn a lot less to get back some normality.