Is that the case that a larger proportion of healthcare workers there are being infected and developing serious illness? Perhaps they're just more exposed to a higher amount of community spread and higher number of patients, making infection more likely over time regardless of what they do. Their higher death rates, from what I can tell, stem from inadequate healthcare resources in beds and manpower, and failure to flatten the curve in any way as a society.
Again, healthcare workers need to define their terms. Is your goal to avoid the virus completely as you would want to with SARS/MERS/Ebola? Because I can almost guarantee that you won't, as I was unable to with pretty anal use of PPE. If we were fighting something like those illnesses, you can bet your butt that I'd be wearing a space suit before working, but we're not fighting those illnesses, otherwise many hundreds of thousands would have passed by now.
Where did I suggest that the doctor himself was at fault? That's completely outrageous to suggest that I'm implying that, as a frontline PHYSICIAN myself. That's my role. What's yours?
No one is suggesting you "signed up" to get infected. You did, however, sign up to be a critical thinker and know where your risk is coming from, and also to know the natural history of illness. If you think PPE will save you from becoming seriously ill, then whatever helps you sleep at night is what you need, I suppose.
I am asking a question that is important, because it informs our goals as a system and a society. Are we trying to prevent infection altogether, or simply delay the inevitable infection that will come in the future. The idea of "flattening the curve" is that we still have the same number of infections (maybe slightly lower, but still a huge number), but we avoid unnecessary deaths due to lack of bedspace in our hospitals.
If I were you, I'd start accepting the idea that you are taking on risk by working in a hospital, and all the PPE in the world may not save you from illness. It will make you happier in the long run. If you can't accept that, then quit. It's totally within your rights to do so and take on a safer job.