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CHAPEL HILL, NC – Front-line physicians who cared for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic in New York City and New Orleans reported multiple factors that contributed to their occupational stress during this extraordinarily trying time in their careers.

These included individual-level factors such as age, work experience and life stage; institutional-level factors such as resource disparities, institutional type and size, and policies; professional-level factors such as informal rationing and medical uncertainty; and societal-level factors such as the federal response, COVID politics, and social inequalities.

“At this point in the pandemic, it’s well recognized that burnout is pervasive in medicine,” said Mara Buchbinder, PhD, professor and vice chair in the UNC Department of Social Medicine and lead author of the new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicinehttps://news.unchealthcare.org/2022/11/multiple-stressors-contributed-to-physician-burnout-during-first-wave-of-covid-19-in-the-u-s?utm_source=Vital+Signs&utm_campaign=Vital+Signs+11-10-22&utm_medium=email

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