Nurses in the hospital are easily transferable. You can be switched to an area or unit that is surging (COVID patients) from most other areas.
Many other areas are too specialized to be transferable. For example pathologists. With no biopsies coming in and not being specialist trained to manage ventilated patients, most are likely with nothing to do.
Even OB/GYN is way down, they are still catching babies but the vast majority of the Gyn work is on hold.
Neurologists, cardiologists, radiologists, orthopedists, etc all have half the volume they did before. Some but not all of these can be crash-retrained to care for COVID patients under supervision of intensive care docs.
Ancillary personnel like transporters are needed much less.
Obviously busy will be pulmonologists, hospitalists, intensive care docs, and ED personnel.
Nurses in the hospital are easily transferable. You can be switched to an area or unit that is surging (COVID patients) from most other areas.
Many other areas are too specialized to be transferable. For example pathologists. With no biopsies coming in and not being specialist trained to manage ventilated patients, most are likely with nothing to do.
Even OB/GYN is way down, they are still catching babies but the vast majority of the Gyn work is on hold.
Neurologists, cardiologists, radiologists, orthopedists, etc all have half the volume they did before. Some but not all of these can be crash-retrained to care for COVID patients under supervision of intensive care docs.
Ancillary personnel like transporters are needed much less.
Obviously busy will be pulmonologists, hospitalists, intensive care docs, and ED personnel.