Challenges for the Beleaguered Health Care Workforce During COVID-19

Two years after it first appeared, COVID-19 continues to affect the population's health and the world economy.The good news is that recent waves of COVID-19 appear less likely to cause severe cases of disease compared with prior waves.As the health situation has improved, the economy has recovered as well-though only partially.A tremendous amount of dislocation remains, and working through the economic situation will be challenging.Unfortunately for clinicians, health care businesses have been buffeted as much as any business.For decades, health care seemed immune from economic shocks 1 but that is no longer true. 2 Thus, physicians will continue to face the double burden of sick patients and practiceassociated turmoil.