Monday, May 11, 2009

Are you burned out yet, DOC?

WSJ blog listed some causes of burnout among surgeons and other physicians:

  • Length of training and delayed “gratification”
  • Long working hours and enormous workloads
  • Imbalance between career and family
  • Feeling isolated / not enough time to connect with colleagues
  • Financial issues (salary, budgets, insurance issues)
  • Grief and guilt about patient death or unsatisfactory outcome
  • Insufficient protected research time and funding
  • Sex- and age-related issues
  • Inefficient and/or hostile work environment
  • Setting unrealistic goals or having them imposed on oneself

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