Survey: ED doctors stressed over workplace COVID-19 exposuresEarly in the COVID-19 pandemic, US emergency department (ED) physicians said they were stressed by exposures to infected patients to the point that it impinged on their home lives and female ED doctors reported higher stress levels than their male counterparts, according to survey results published today in Academic Emergency Medicine.A total of 426 respondents to an emailed survey sent to all ED physicians at seven academic healthcare facilities in seven cities from Feb 23 to Apr 10 reported that their stress levels were a median of 5 on a scale of 1 to 7 (1 indicating not at all, 7 indicating extremely).Levels of emotional exhaustion and burnout increased from a median of 3