Restaurants and retailers aren’t the only small businesses that have taken a financial hit during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Physicians in small private practices around the country have reported steep declines in revenues, drops so significant that some of them and their supporters have turned to GoFundMe—the platform best-known for helping patients pay their medical bills—to raise funds to help pay their overhead. Telemedicine has helped pick up only a small portion of the slack.