Physician burnout – that sense of detachment from the profession and leading in the extreme to depression is very real with nearly 50% reporting experiencing such feelings. The consent demands of meeting patient needs and wants, ensuring engagement while typing in the diagnosis in your EHR software, doing more with less, and doing it all in the increasing confines of regulations and rules is taking the professional pleasure out of a career that requires incredible dedication.
The antidote, a professional life, and a personal life, with clear lines of demarcation. In the professional life, dedication to patient care and in the personal life, dedication to one's family, self, and friends. Continues Reading https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/physician-burnout-nipping-problem-bud