A lot of medical practitioners in the U.S. admitted to going to work while ill, even while understanding the risk this may pose to patients, Reuters reported on June 6.
In the 536 children hospital medical practitioners surveyed, 83 percent stated that they reported to work in 2014 even when they were ill, although over 95 percent of the responders, which included doctors, midwives, nurses, and medical assistants, believed that this practice put patients at risk. A Houston doctor who commented on the research stated that cancer and transplant patients are at particular risk when sick medical workers are around. The study was headed by Julia Szymczak and published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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