WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a joint statement, emergency medicine and other leading medical associations, academics and psychiatry experts outline steps to support the mental health of emergency physicians and other health professionals currently risking their lives to treat patients during this pandemic.
As important as providing personal protective equipment is the need to ensure the mental health of our frontline clinicians is attended to during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said American Psychiatric Association (APA) President Jeffrey Geller, M.D., M.P.H. “Each health care professional should seek help if needed without hesitation, and should be helped to do so by a colleague if such...
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