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Beating burnout 7 steps for preventing and managing physician burnout. By Suzette Sison
14 endoeconomics MARCH 2020
cians practicing in more than 29 specialties about their degree of burnout, how they cope with it and if they had thoughts of suicide. Feelings of burnout were reported by 44% of respondents.
The Toll of Burnout Left unaddressed, physician burnout can result in poor clinical care, increased mistakes, patient dissatisfaction, and dysfunctional interactions with patients, nurses, and other physicians. Physician burnout can even lead to doctors leaving
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Many physicians under pressure to provide better outcomes faster and at lower costs, are getting burned out. Physician burnout is a significant health problem because it affects quality of care, results in high turnover rates and reduces productivity. More importantly, burnout can also destroy lives and increase the risk of suicide. Unfortunately, physician burnout is widespread. In the Medscape National Physician Burnout, Depression & Suicide Report 2019, researchers surveyed 15,069 physi-
