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Editorial
. 2021 Nov;174(11):1614-1615.
doi: 10.7326/M21-3381. Epub 2021 Sep 28.

Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce

Eileen Barrett  1 , Susan Thompson Hingle  2 , Cynthia D Smith  3 , Darilyn V Moyer  3
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Editorial

Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce

Eileen Barrett et al. Ann Intern Med. 2021 Nov.

Abstract

Physicians and other clinicians continue to wrestle with how to provide safe, high-quality, compassionate care despite ever-changing and potentially dangerous work conditions in the setting of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The risk for contracting COVID-19, the challenges of caring for medically complex patients, and a polarized political environment compound workplace hazards and stress. The authors urge employers and organized medicine to take tangible steps to preserve the clinical workforce.

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