Resident doctors, who constitute a bulk of frontline providers, are newly minted doctors, fresh out of medical school and continuing their training in specialties from psychiatry to surgery. The same can be said for systemic issues in medical training. While loan forgiveness and hazard pay would help resident doctors, these mere Band-Aids for those working amid the coronavirus pandemic do little to heal the deep, chronic wounds suffered by doctors during medical training. Tax dollars fund resident training primarily through Medicare, and hospitals can allocate extra funding to increase the number of residents or pay. This pandemic will pass, in part due to the lifesaving efforts of resident doctors, but as we suffer in silence, our inhumane conditions will persist.

Source: Huffington Post May 06, 2020 16:30 UTC