Employers in nearly every industry are struggling to find new hires amid the current labor shortage, and ophthalmology practices are no different.
“It’s a global problem throughout the whole economy,” Jawad Qureshi, MD, of Retina Center of Texas, said. “When COVID set off, there were a number of governmental fail-safes put into place to help people get through the pandemic, which were fantastic and we actually took advantage of as a practice. However, from a business standpoint, we started to become very thin on staff.”
As Qureshi’s practice volume ramped up