Healthcare Innovation April 3, 2020
The pressures on healthcare providers these days are mounting and coming from many different areas. One ED physician paints the picture of the COVID-19 impact.
Across the country, physicians on the front lines are dealing with an unprecedented healthcare crisis. Not only are hospitals dealing with surges of COVID-19 patients—with the worst perhaps yet to come—but clinicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals are struggling with inadequate COVID-19 testing, a lack of necessary medical supplies, and not enough precautions in place to protect them.
These challenges have been widely reported in the past several weeks, and more recently, a survey from Doximity, a professional medical network with more than 70 million...