Many hospitals around the country have postponed scheduled procedures to make room for a high influx of COVID-19 patients, but what about everyone else seeking healthcare during the pandemic?
For this episode, WORT news and public affairs director Chali Pittman spends the hour with Dr. Gretchen Schwarze, vascular surgeon and medical ethicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and longtime patient advocate Meg Gaines, recently retired as director of the Center for Patient Partnerships.
They discuss the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on non-coronavirus healthcare patients who are waiting on routine medical procedures, screenings, and surgeries deemed non-essential during the crisis—and what this could all mean for patient outcomes and public trust in our healthcare system moving forward.
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