The National Taskforce of Humanity in Healthcare recently published research showing physician burnout is impacting quality safety, and health care system performance — estimating that “costs for burnout-related turnover may be as high as $1.7B annually among hospital-employed physicians, and $17 billion across all U.S. physicians.” At Stanford Medicine, physician burnout costs at least $7.75M yearly.
These numbers are staggering. Growing numbers of physicians are leaving medicine (surely impacting the physician shortage) and over half of U.S. physicians are experiencing burnout.
Meditation rooms and yoga will not cut it.
Experiencing burnout first-hand as a practicing anesthesiologist caused me to leave clinical practice after 15 years but led me down another path advocating for a new culture in medicine that respects and invests in physician wellness.
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