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As COVID-19 bears down, doctors confront difficult choices on elective surgeries.
April 8, 2020
Alesse L, Dukakis A, Tatum S, Mosk M. ABC News. March 20, 2020.
Delays in elective surgery and other procedures have the potential to lessen safe patient care. This news story describes the decision-making dilemma for physicians to limit patient access to care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their concern is that the delays have the potential to result in diagnostic and treatment service deviations that could result in harm.
