Health Care Blog September 10, 2021
Week after week, I hear from colleagues in diverse specialties about how exhausted they are from practicing medicine.
It’s no surprise that they are looking for careers outside of medicine. The demands and strain are unsustainable.
So it’s also no surprise that a recent survey showed 40% of primary care clinicians are worried that their field won’t exist in five years and that 21% expect to leave primary care in three years as a result of COVID-19-related burnout.
While COVID-19 is the tipping point, this burnout is the result of the relentless and mounting administrative burden placed on us by electronic medical records (EMRs), coding and billing requirements and prior authorizations. And then it is exacerbated by uncertainty mounting...
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