Emergency room doctors facing pay cuts and understaffing during pandemic
Source: CBS
April 20, 2020, 6:44 PM
The financial fallout of the pandemic is affecting some of the most vital health workers in the country. CBS News spoke with ER doctors in at least half a dozen states who said they're taking pay cuts of up to 40%.
The American College of Emergency Physicians said cutting benefits and shifts could force some emergency rooms to shut down.
Dr. Leslie Simon, the chair of the emergency medicine department at the Mayo Clinic, sees patients with COVID-19 symptoms daily. "You go through the stages of grief when you get a pay cut," Simon said. "And we all did, but I think they understand why it happened. And there's very much the sentiment among our department that we're all in this together. And we understand that it was necessary."
Simon and her team just took a 10% salary reduction — a consequence of the hospital's anticipated $3 billion revenue loss.
"We still have student loans. We have kids to send to college. We have mortgages," she said.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emergency-room-doctors-facing-pay-cuts-and-understaffing-during-pandemic-2020-04-20/
Up to a 40% pay cut during a pandemic?
Where did the $100 Billion Stimulus to the hospitals go?
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