5 Reasons for Physician Burnout

In a KevinMD blog post, Karen S. Sibert, MD, an associate professor of anesthesiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, lays out five reasons why physicians are stressed, leading to higher rates of physician burnout.

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Five reasons, according to Dr. Sibert, are:

•    Pressure to see more patients and do more cases in less time.
•    Declining pay because of which physicians cannot afford the support services at home and work that could help relieve stress.
•    The federal government’s push to make physicians follow protocols and impose penalties for noncompliance.
•    Dealing with the demands of home life and work life, which may make a physician feel down.
•    Electronic medical records forces physicians to spend time on endless data entry.

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