MedPage Today July 29, 2024
— An excerpt from Hotz’s book, The Connection Cure
Last month, a viral video explaining an MIT neurosurgeon’s decision to quit the field unearthed the many frustrations that millions of fellow medical professionals have been facing for years.
The most obvious is burnout. One survey found more than half of U.S. doctors experience burnout, and that numbers were highest among doctors in emergency medicine, internal medicine, ob/gyn, and family medicine. Another study weighing physician guidelines with current patient demands suggests it would take primary care doctors 26.7 hours per day to see an average number of patients.
Recent pleas diagnose the culprit as moral injury — described, in another viral essay, as a phenomenon in which health workers are forced...
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