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Charles William Hargett III

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Duke Box 2650, Durham, NC 27710
Duke South White Zone, 564-B, Durham, NC 27710

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor of Medicine · 2021 - Present Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Medicine

Recent Publications


Exploring US internal medicine resident career preferences: a Q-methodology study.

Journal Article Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract · August 2023 Career selection in medicine is a complex and underexplored process. Most medical career studies performed in the U.S. focused on the effect of demographic variables and medical education debt on career choice. Considering ongoing U.S. physician workforce ... Full text Link to item Cite

Distressed Work: Chronic Imperatives and Distress in Covid-19 Critical Care.

Journal Article Hastings Cent Rep · January 2023 This ethnographic study introduces the term "distressed work" to describe the emergence of chronic frictions between moral imperatives for health care workers to keep working and the dramatic increase in distress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews an ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

Journal Article Med Anthropol · April 2021 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


RAPID: Healthcare Workforce Resilience in the Time of Covid-19

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2022

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Virginia · 1999 M.D.