Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce

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

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.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / epidemiology*
  • COVID-19 / prevention & control*
  • Employment / statistics & numerical data*
  • Health Workforce*
  • Humans
  • Pandemics
  • Return to Work
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • United States / epidemiology