{"id":57867,"date":"2019-01-17T00:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57867"},"modified":"2019-01-17T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:28:34","slug":"alarming-burnout-making-doctors-want-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57867","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alarming\u2019 burnout is making doctors want to kill themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doctor burnout is becoming a huge problem, according to new research, which finds that nearly half of all physicians feel completely depleted, to the point where one in seven have contemplated suicide.<\/p>\n

The annual Medscape report, released Wednesday, finds that on average, 44 percent of the medical professionals your existence depends on report feeling stressed out to the point where they\u2019ve considered leaving the field altogether.<\/p>\n

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A higher percentage of these wiped-out life-savers are women, according to the survey of more than 15,000 doctors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s alarming,\u201d says Brunilda Nazario, lead medical director at WebMD, which owns Medscape. \u201cThese numbers haven\u2019t changed, and the problem just continues to be a trend, despite increasing programs to address wellness,\u201d such as \u201cnutrition and exercise programs, or more time off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reason for the scary numbers isn\u2019t what you would think: Most doctors say it\u2019s the level of paperwork and data input they\u2019ve had to do since medical records went digital. Doctors end up spending about 45 minutes per patient visit on tasks like \u201cinputting data codes for the visit,\u201d Nazario says, leaving little face-to-face time with patients.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Doctors] are spending an enormous amount of time taking in data during physician-patient visits,\u201d she says. \u201cI know during my last visit for my physician, I think the doctor spent no more than two minutes looking at me. They were looking at a computer screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result is scary: \u201cI dread coming to work,\u201d one neurologist says in the report.<\/p>\n

A family physician says the stress is taking a toll on her physically: \u201cI\u2019m having recurrent miscarriages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m drinking more and have become less active,\u201d an anesthesiologist says.<\/p>\n

Though most doctors say the depression doesn\u2019t affect their patient care, 35 percent say they find themselves getting exasperated with their patients, and 14 percent say they make errors they wouldn\u2019t normally make.<\/p>\n

Nazario says that while burnout is common among workers, for doctors, it can seem worse because all the schooling and training they\u2019ve undergone can feel like a waste when most of their day is spent typing codes into their medical software.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost like being a cog in a wheel, where they\u2019re going through the motions of what\u2019s necessary, not necessarily using all the knowledge that she or he has gained in the years of training,\u201d Nazario says.<\/p>\n

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