Burnout syndrome is an epidemic occurring in the medical community due to growing demands on health care providers and increased personnel shortages. It is a form of chronic stress that leads to health care providers becoming disconnected from their profession and apathetic to their patients’ needs. American Medical Association (AMA) and Mayo Clinic conducted a survey of 6,880 doctors to assess the occurrence of burnout; the top 5 specialties with the highest rates of burnout were providers who practiced: 1. Emergency Medicine Advertisement 2. Urology 3.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 4. Family Medicine 5. Radiology 54.4% of providers in the AMA and Mayo Clinic study admitted to suffering from at least one sign of burnout. A second survey from the Physicians Foundation revealed that: 63% of its respondents had negative feelings about practicing medicine 49% experienced feelings of…
