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Is Burnout Talk Causing More Burnout?

Almost every day for the last few years, someone is writing about physician burnout or depression. The problems begin in medical school. A recent paper featured drawings that medical students had done depicting faculty as...

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Choosing a Medical Specialty & Balancing Life

The following was posted anonymously as a comment on a blog I wrote about the difficulty one has in choosing a medical specialty. I was so taken with it that I wanted to give it more exposure. [Note: The comment contained a few...

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A Look at Suicide Among Physicians

Mental illness appears to be an important comorbidity for physicians who complete a suicide, according to findings from a data review. After assessing postmortem toxicology data, researchers observed low rates of medication...

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Burnout Rates Among U.S. Physicians

Burnout appears to be more common among physicians than other working class adults in the United States, according to survey results. Among physicians, 37.9% had symptoms of burnout and 40.2% were dissatisfied with work-life...

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Top 10 Physician Burnout Triggers

It happened again. I was talking to a particularly sick patient recently who related another bad experience with a specialist. “He came in and started spouting that he was busy saving someone’s life in the ER, and then he didn’t...

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