Honor Your Doctor – It’s National Doctors Day Today (and EveryDay)
By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn on 30 March 2020 in Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Doctors, Health care industry, Health Economics, Health ecosystem, Health policy, Hospitals, Medical education, Medical school, Physicians
Today, March 30, is National Doctors Day. We honor doctors annually on this day. But every day, we must honor physicians for bolstering the health and wellness of our fellow Americans, our beloved families and friends, and our selves. The Coronavirus Pandemic reminds us of the precious and scarce resource that is our national supply of physicians in America — numbering about 750,000 active clinicians in the U.S. according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, physicians in America had been feeling increasingly burned out and depressed. The 2020 WebMD survey on the state of
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