Studies reveal that more than half of all practicing physicians demonstrate signs of burnout. Contemporary physicians face tremendous pressures due to a confluence of factors, including balancing heavy patient loads within constrained schedules, the increasing complexity of patient health problems, and increasingly burdensome COVID-related documentation requirements. These circumstances—and more—challenge physician empathy, and even to some
The role of empathy in improving patient care and decreasing medical liability originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
