Thirty percent of university hospital doctors are expected to be putting in overtime beyond the “threshold for death from overwork,” according to a study by the Association of Japan Medical Colleges.
Ahead of the downgrading of the novel coronavirus on May 8, a survey found that half of the COVID-19 units at university hospitals nationwide had already been either scrapped or scaled down.
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