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Burnout And Wellness Strategies During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cecilia Salinas Domene
Burnout And Wellness Strategies During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cecilia Salinas Domene
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers not only had to manage how to treat a new disease but also had to increase their workload to keep up with the patients infected with the new virus. These physicians had to deal with an increase in patients and an increase in patient deaths. In addition, being a frontline worker meant that these physicians had more exposure to the virus than the general population. If they did contract the virus themselves, they had to go into quarantine, many times away from their families (Walton et al., 2020). A national survey done of physicians …