Medscape December 18, 2024
It is a truth universally acknowledged: Physicians are at high risk for burnout. But since the end of the COVID pandemic, burnout among one specialty has soared. In Medscape’s 2024 Physician Burnout & Depression Report, nearly two thirds of emergency physicians said they felt it.
“Some of the magnifying glass of emergency medicine is reflective of what we see in medicine in general,” said Resa E. Lewiss, MD, an emergency medicine physician and professor of emergency medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “We’re taught you don’t complain, you don’t need to sleep, you don’t need to eat. You can get a lot done, and the sacrifice is inherent in the training.”
But there are indications that things will...
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