Abstract
A majority of primary care physicians in the US and 9 other high-income countries report that they are burned out as a result of increased workloads since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many saying it has affected the quality of care they provide, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund.In addition, nearly half of older primary care physicians in most of the countries surveyed said they plan to leave the workforce soon. Such an outflow of physicians working in primary care is especially concerning, the report said, because for 2 decades or more, the US and other countries were already “bracing for a shortage of physicians, a problem that has reached crisis proportions in recent years.”
