HIT Consultant September 10, 2020
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training interrupted, in some cases for many months, hindering their professional development. Nevertheless, their focus now turns to a backlog of cases from, as the New York Times put it, the pandemic’s “hidden victims” – patients suffering from other serious health conditions whose care has been postponed by the ravages...
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