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Public health advocates are calling for hospitals, doctors, and other health providers to adopt masking policies, as health care mask mandates were lifted with the end of the state's COVID-19 public health emergency on Thursday.

The move represents a broad policy shift to managing COVID less as a crisis and more as a routine health issue, more than three years since the start of the pandemic.

Some expressed concern for those with compromised immune systems and other health conditions.

Mass. Medical Society President Ted Calianos said survey results not wholly surprising nor inconsistent with what is happening across the country.

About 63% of female doctors who participated in the survey showed symptoms of burnout.

Half of Massachusetts doctors surveyed have already or intend to soon cut back their clinical hours, and one in four plan to leave medicine altogether in the...

Concerns about staffing shortages have plagued the health care industry in recent years. Half of Massachusetts doctors surveyed have already or intend to soon cut back their clinical hours, according to new data released by a leading industry group.

Dr. Huan Ngo, of Signature Healthcare Brockton, said hospitals faced an inordinate increase in sick patients this year as early as September.

“Everything is happening at an accelerated pace,” Dr. Huan Ngo, chief medical officer at Signature Healthcare, of an increase in respiratory illness.

The seven-day average of positive tests for COVID-19 in Massachusetts has been jumping up in recent weeks. Read more on Boston.com.