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The physician and Covid-19: opportunities and risks for mental health
LIVE STREAMING EVENT
Chairperson: Gilberto Corbellini
The Covid-19 pandemic presents a challenge to and stress upon healthcare systems and professionals with few precedents in modern history. Though it is still early to predict the pandemic’s long-term impact upon professionals’ mental health and the stability of the organisations they belong to, we already have evidence of negative psychosocial effects upon individuals in the short- and medium-term, as well as of the potential for the “post-traumatic growth” of professionals and organisations.
