Medical Economics March 17, 2020
Wendy Dean, MD, the found of Fix Moral Injury, discusses why the term “burnout” does not encompass the full scope of the problem, and what can be done to address physician career dissatisfaction.
Medical Economics: Do we have a burnout crisis in medicine today?
Wendy Dean, MD: So we have a crisis of distress. Clinicians across the board have told us that they are struggling with their jobs. They love their patients. They love medicine in general, but they’re struggling with the day to day challenges that they face as they try to do those jobs and take care of the patients.
Whether or not it’s burnout, that’s debatable.
Medical Economics: Can you expand on that a little bit? Because...
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