Many US physicians financially impacted by COVID-19, surveys show

Almost half of physicians who were surveyed in the U.S. reported losing their jobs, seeing a reduction in pay or being furloughed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released during IDWeek.
“Health care workers are in an unprecedented situation,” Greer A. Burkholder, MD, MSPH, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, told Healio Primary Care. “It is important that we study the effects of the pandemic on physicians and other health care workers in a systematic way.”
Burkholder and colleagues distributed a

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