COVID -19 Impact on Physician Daily Workflow - A Multispecialty Perspective

  • Chetan Brahma Kammari Cape Fear Valley Hospital, Fayetteville, NC - 28306
    cbkammari@gmail.com
  • Subba Rao Daggubati
  • Narayana Murty Koduri
  • sreedhar Adapa
  • Venu Madhav Konala

Abstract

The current COVID -19 pandemic has significantly changed the practice of medicine and made us reinvent the delivery of care.  The United States has the highest number of cases and mortality due to COVID-19.  Our moral obligation, combined with various ethical and practical issues on our day to day life, has been pushed to a level we have never seen before. In this article, we highlight various issues physicians are battling day in and day out, along with hardships physicians and administrators encounter during these unprecedented times. Physicians, administrators, and patients have been experiencing many challenges as we move along these unprecedented times. Helping people reintegrate back to new normal life once the pandemic settles will be a major healthcare task. It needs coordinated effort from the governments, administrators, healthcare personal and local communities.

Keywords: COVID, perspective, physician, impact, workflow

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Kammari CB, Daggubati SR, Koduri NM, Adapa sreedhar, Konala VM. COVID -19 Impact on Physician Daily Workflow - A Multispecialty Perspective. Am J Med Nat Sci [Internet]. 2020Jul.27 [cited 2025Sep.19];1(2):1-. Available from: https://www.ajmns.com/index.php/journal/article/view/11
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Vol 1 Issue 2 June, 2020
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