Breaking point: the 5 reasons American doctors are dreaming of walking away from medicine

KevinMD May 5, 2023
Amol Shrikhande, MD

No one feels sorry for American doctors. They are some of the highest-paid in the world and spend their lives in the country with the highest nominal GDP in the world. But why is it so hard to find any doctors who actually like their job? Why do so many dream of walking away? Here are five reasons why.

The electronic medical record (EMR)

Technology is amazing, and the EMR is no exception. Gone are the days of hunting down old paper records, and access to patient-related data is at an all-time high. So what’s the problem? There are a few.

To start, as the one taking care of an individual patient, the quantity of data is unimportant—quality and relevance...

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