H&HN September 21, 2017
Lola Butcher

One cause: An ever-expanding list of responsibilities

Working as a hospitalist for many years, Daniel L. Roberts, M.D., has heard it both ways: Some say hospitalists are more prone to burnout than other physicians. Others say hospitalists are more protected from burnout than their colleagues in other specialties.

Roberts, an internist who practices at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, dug through survey data to find out which theory was correct. Initially, his comparison of burnout rates among hospitalists with those of general internists who practice in outpatient settings did not reveal a major difference: More than 52 percent of hospitalists and nearly 55 percent of outpatient internists are affected by burnout, according to the 2014 Journal of Hospital Medicine study.

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