News in brief DO starts a COVID-19 support hotline for physicians Volunteer psychiatrists are staffing the national, free and confidential hotline, which is now operating from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. daily. May 4, 2020Monday Rose Raymond Contact Rose Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics COVID-19 Psychiatrist Mona Masood, DO, is the founder and chief organizer of the Physician Support Line, which launched in March to help physicians deal with the stress of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Physicians can call (888) 409-0141 to speak with a licensed psychiatrist. The free, confidential hotline, available nationwide, recently expanded its hours to 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. ET seven days a week. In an April 28 article on NBC News, Dr. Masood said she realized a hotline for physicians would be beneficial when she began seeing more and more anxious posts about COVID-19 that physicians were posting on social media. “I was finding a very high occurrence of posts that were about personal mental health,” she told NBC News. “There was day-to-day stress but also anticipatory anxiety about patients and doctors getting sick and bringing it home to their families.” Related reading: COVID-19: Maintaining your mental health during a pandemic More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous article5 things to know about COVID-19 this week Next articleCOVID-19: How to optimize your immune system with prehabilitation
TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana.
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