Futurity April 29, 2024
The unique circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic altered a long-held convention that doctors provide care regardless of personal risk.
In a study assessing doctors’ tolerance for refusing care to COVID-19 patients, researchers identified a growing acceptance to withhold care because of safety concerns.
“All the papers throughout history have shown that physicians broadly believed they should treat infectious disease patients,” says Braylee Grisel, a fourth-year student at Duke University School of Medicine, and lead author of the study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
“We figured our study would show the same thing, so we were really surprised when we found that COVID-19 was so different than all these other outbreaks,” Grisel says.
The researchers analyzed 187 published...
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