HCP Live March 8, 2024
In an interview with HCPLive, Viktoriya Karakcheyeva, MD, discussed how women healthcare workers experience more burnout than their male colleagues.
Even though women have more rights today than a hundred years ago, women healthcare workers today still experience inequality in the workplace—from unequal pay to some patients refusing to address them by the doctor title but only by their first name, unlike their male colleagues.
Because of these inequities, females working in healthcare face significantly more stress and burnout than male coworkers, according to a new study led by Viktoriya Karakcheyeva, MD, MS, NCC, LCP-SP, LCADAS, from the GW Resiliency & Well-Being Center at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.1,2
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