among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection.
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many [family doctors] are themselves incapacitated with long COVID, and those who are not lack education and training on how to manage it. “The family doctors I know who were disabled by long COVID often did not know they had long COVID,” said Hulme. They would confuse it with other conditions, such as perimenopause.
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There is a lot of stigma around [long COVID. Physicians with it] have had a really hard time going off work. They have been made to feel very guilty and [risk] losing their practice.”
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