The COVID-19 pandemic has put an enormous strain on health care workers and exacerbated existing burnout and staffing shortages. Many workers have reported considering leaving the profession altogether.
“Physicians are deeply mission driven,” Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, an associate professor of internal medicine and director of continuing medical education at the University of New Mexico, told Healio Primary Care. “We continued to take care of patients when there was inadequate PPE, before we had vaccines, when there was no treatment for COVID, and when we didn’t know if