MedPage Today November 11, 2023
— Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, uses his interim speech to “shine a light” on the challenges docs face
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — American Medical Association (AMA) President Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, urged his fellow members to continue the good fight against the multifront crises in medicine.
Burnout, mental health issues, political pressures, and financial strains are all taking a toll on physicians. Ehrenfeld, who is an anesthesiologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, shared examples of the challenges that he’d seen clinicians contend with, such as a physician who left her community and the LGBTQ clinic where she worked because of “legislative overreach” and a colleague who had a breakdown in the physician’s lounge. He also referred back...
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