Pushed to Their Limits, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice

On the same day in Mar 2020 that President Donald Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, researchers at the Larry A. Green Center in Virginia launched an ongoing survey of COVID-19's effects on primary care practices. Over the past 2 years, more than 36,000 survey responses from clinicians across the country have painted an alarming picture of a workforce that's increasingly burned out, traumatized, anxious, and depressed. Green Center codirector Rebecca S. Etz, PhD summed up her survey's findings saying that it's been bad for primary care over the pandemic and it's getting worse.