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babylonsister

(172,804 posts) Mon Nov 16, 2020, 11:37 AM Nov 2020

Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of Pandemic [View all]

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/16/doctors-are-calling-it-quits-under-stress-of-pandemic/

Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of Pandemic
November 16, 2020 at 8:30 am EST By Taegan Goddard

The New York Times reports that, as the coronavirus surges again, thousands of medical practices are shutting down as doctors and nurses seek early retirement or jobs that don’t cause such intense stress.

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Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of Pandemic [View all] babylonsister Nov 2020 OP

I'm just coming off two weeks of vacation. Aristus Nov 2020 #1

Good Luck! ProfessorGAC Nov 2020 #3

I was going to work three more years, but I retired. Ohiya Nov 2020 #6

The evangelicals pour gas on the fire. Incredible, Covid-19 is bad enough, but stupid humans RKP5637 Nov 2020 #7

The evangelicals are easy to treat, just tell them that you will add them to your prayer list LiberalArkie Nov 2020 #9

Yep, that's best!!! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2020 #11

Love it! BIGLY! keithbvadu2 Nov 2020 #14

Same here. I went thru the HIV/Zika/chickengunya/bird flu scare. Like you the age thing mitch96 Nov 2020 #15

I'll ride it through to the end. bmbmd Nov 2020 #2

Awwww...memories of Snagglepuss the pink mountain lion pandr32 Nov 2020 #13

I resemble that remark! wnylib Nov 2020 #18

LOL! pandr32 Nov 2020 #20

My nurse daughter just bought a condo exboyfil Nov 2020 #4

Sister is a nurse angrychair Nov 2020 #5

Teachers, too. n/t Alex4Martinez Nov 2020 #8

Medical professionals and hospitals should not treat anyone Eliot Rosewater Nov 2020 #10

This Is Not What RobinA Nov 2020 #17

If it comes to a triage situation those who didn't mask up StarryNite Nov 2020 #21

My father-in-law was a surgical nurse who had planned on working a few more years but Luciferous Nov 2020 #12

Wow! ananda Nov 2020 #16

Disaster to.lose health care workers wnylib Nov 2020 #19

At first glance, I was very, very ambivalent about this news. BobTheSubgenius Nov 2020 #22