DOTmed June 7, 2024
In early 2024, research found that 49% of physicians reported feeling burned out, and 20% self-reported as depressed—slight but notable declines from the previous year’s 53% and 23%, respectively. After years of raising the red flag of growing clinician burnout, are things finally improving? Are doctors level setting after the trauma of the pandemic?
Well, not exactly. It’s an encouraging finding, but that report still found physician burnout at historically high levels, and radiology ranked as the sixth-highest specialty for burnout. It’s also just one survey—at my practice, I can tell you that burnout is not improving; it has been trending the opposite way. Almost every discussion I have with the people I work with is about burnout. And I’m...
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