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Anxiety. Missed appointments. Doctors seeing impact of the government shutdown on patients
Fierce Healthcare
Melissa Hidde, M.D., is seeing lots of patients whose anxiety is through the roof at the Green Bay, Wisconsin, practice where she works. And the family practitioner is not alone, as a new survey found that 74% of primary care physicians in the U.S. report that their patients have been affected by the current government shutdown. “There’s this pervasive, underlying anxiety,” Hidde said.