Demoralized doctors and nurses are leaving the field, hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their employers. Dire forecasts of health care worker shortages often look to a decade or more from now, but the pandemic — and its ongoing fallout — has already ushered in a volatile era of dissatisfied workers and understaffed health care facilities. Complaints about understaffing, administrative burdens and inadequate wages aren’t new, but they are getting much louder — and more health workers are leaving their jobs or cutting back their hours.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/2024/06/07/health-care-worker-shortages-us-crisis