Physician Burnout Has Reached Epidemic Levels
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Physician Burnout Statistics
Physicians Who Report Being Burned Out
Physicians Who Report Being Depressed
Male Physicians Who Report Being Burned Out
Female Physicians Who Report Being Burned Out
Source: 2024 Medscape Medical News
What is Physician Burnout?
Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged or excessive stress. It is an occupational phenomenon that typically occurs in the workplace but can also affect other areas of life.
If you have felt any of the following, you’re in the right place.
Causes of physician burnout include:
- Volume of work exceeds one’s capacity – Includes clinical patient duties, as well as non-clinical and bureaucratic tasks.
- Loss of autonomy – in deferring decisions to insurance companies and/or administration, and working toward reaching other’s (third-party) expectations.
- Feeling unchallenged or “bored” – this is due to “finally reaching the top of the mountain” and immediately looking for the next challenge.
- “Moral injury” – this develops when the system forces us to sacrifice what we are most passionate about – patient care – for any number of non-clinical mandates/issues.
- Feeling undervalued or unappreciated – this may seem to come from all directions, including our own family, patients, the public at large, administrators, insurance companies, other members of the healthcare team, etc.
Symptoms and signs of burnout may include:
- Feeling unmotivated but also feeling irritable or restless.
- Mental exhaustion and even physical fatigue, weight loss/gain, and physical ailments.
- taking up compulsive distractions such as shopping or spending money, alcohol or substance use, forming new or changing relationships, gambling, etc.
- Anxiety, depression, and other formal mental health diagnoses.
- Feeling angry often, acting short-tempered, being impatient with oneself and others, and feeling frustrated.
- Professional and personal (family, spouse, friends) relationship problems.
- Feeling unfulfilled, unchallenged or “bored”.
- Having an overall negative attitude, especially toward work related issues.
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I was the typical overachieving, people-pleasing medical student, surgical resident, and young doctor, who successfully built a thriving clinical practice within the Texas medical center. My career, as well as my personal and professional reputation, came crashing down as my hidden secret of opiate addiction was discovered and made public.
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