14 reasons for physician burnout

Practice Management

Here are 14 common causes of physician burnout, according to the Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report 2015.

Physicians were asked to rate the causes of burnout on a scale of one ("not at all important") to seven ("extremely important").

 

•    Too many bureaucratic tasks — 4.74
•    Spending too many hours at work — 3.99
•    Income not high enough — 3.71
•    Increasing computerization of practice — 3.68
•    Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — 3.65
•    Feeling like a cog in a wheel — 3.54
•    Too many difficult patients — 3.37
•    Too many patient appointments in a day — 3.34
•    Inability to provide patients with the quality care they need — 3.22
•    Lack of professional fulfillment — 3.05
•    Difficult colleagues or staff — 2.9
•    Inability to keep up with current research or recommendations — 2.86
•    Compassion fatigue (overexposure to death, violence and/or other loss in patients) — 2.8
•    Difficult employer — 2.8

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