Physician Burnout
Medscape provides a comparison of burnout by specialty, with internal medicine and family medicine approaching 50%.
The most common steps of physicians to alleviate burnout include: Reducing work hours (31%), changing work settings (24%), and making workflow or staff changes (21%).
Note – We support this last option. [Link to report]
2018 Survey of America's Physicians
Key findings of The Physicians Foundation survey:
- 46% plan to change career paths
- 62% favor a single payer (with or without a private option)
- 49% would not recommend a career in medicine for their children
- 63% feel they have little or very little ability to influence the health system
They are dissatisfied with EMR design and interoperability, because EMR’s have reduced efficiency (56%) and distracted from patient interaction (66%). [Link to Survey]
Physicians Spend More Than Half of Work Day on Electronic Health Records, September 2017
While physician burnout happens for a number of reasons, spending a good deal of the work day and beyond on EHR is one of the things that leads to burnout. [Link to article]
Physician Burnout Is a Public Health Crisis, March 2017
Ten prominent health system CEO’s sent this message to their fellow CEO’s, “The Quadruple Aim recognizes that a healthy, energized, engaged, and resilient physician workforce is essential to achieving national health goals”. [Link to article]
Glorified data input clerk
You can spend less time on the computer and more time with patients.