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Physicians shutting practices
Article by February 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only impacting the general population, and driving fear into the elderly, it has affected the profession most needed at this time. And over the past 12 months, the medical profession has lost several of its members who have chosen to retire early.
There is no official retirement age for medical doctors in private practice but President of the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP) Dr Lynda Williams, confirmed an undisclosed number of older doctors have decided to call it a day, rather than risk exposure to COVID-19.
Among those who have retired early citing COVID-19 is a popular family physician and former Independent Senator Dr Carol Jacobs.