Washington Post October 23, 2019
As many as half of all clinicians suffer from the problem, creating risks to patients, malpractice claims and absenteeism, study finds.
Imagine a health-care system in which doctors and nurses are so exhausted and beaten down that many of them work like zombies — error-prone, apathetic toward patients and at times trying to blunt their own pain with alcohol or even suicide attempts.
That is what America’s broken health care system is doing to its health workers, according to a 312-page report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Medicine, one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions.
The report found that as many as half of the country’s doctors and nurses experience substantial symptoms of...
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