Medical Errors & Physician Burnout
Studies have shown that medical errors are common in the United States healthcare system,...
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Studies have shown that medical errors are common in the United States healthcare system,...
Read MoreJan 18, 2016
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...
Read MoreJan 23, 2015
Research indicates that physicians tend to put the needs of their patients before their own....
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In 2003, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) released its first...
Read MoreJul 8, 2013
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...
Read MoreJul 1, 2013
Anesthesiology is one of 21 medical specialties in the United States that is currently...
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It is 3 am, and you are the only man breathing in the room. After 8 hours of listening, feeling,...
Read MoreJan 29, 2013
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...
Read MoreJan 9, 2013
Perceptions of fatigue appear to have improved following the implementation of the 2003...
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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...
Read MoreNov 15, 2012
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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Previous research has shown that fatigue is an underestimated cause of underperformance among...
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Survey results from more than 2,600 medical students suggest that positive mental health may help reduce the severity of consequences resulting from burnout. As mental health improved, the prevalence of suicidal ideation and...
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Most surgery residents do not appear to perceive that quality of care would be noticeably improved...
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The prevalence of substance use disorders in the United States has been well documented in...
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There is much hand-wringing about the shortage of primary care physicians. But primary care is not...
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Alcohol abuse and dependence appears to be a significant problem among surgeons in the United...
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While inexperience is an obvious disadvantage in surgery, being in the profession for decades is...
Read MoreDec 6, 2011
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine distributed a report suggesting that many hospital errors were...
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Some residents appear to pay a high price to become a doctor—and that’s in addition to the cost of...
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