Physicians Practice January 31, 2022
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A physician’s workday is often segmented into two major jobs: Seeing patients and performing the necessary administrative duties to ensure they are paid for work they have performed.
Burnout is always a significant risk in any medical practice. It’s mostly caused by doctors and other clinicians having to see too many patients in too little time. Their levels of stress and exhaustion are further compounded by dealing with an enormous number of complex but monotonous administrative tasks at the end of the clinical workday.
As a result, by the time most physicians check off all the tasks on their daily clinical and administrative worklists, they just want to go home and...