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Wednesday, November 30th, 2022

Pandemic pushes U.S. doctor burnout to all-time high of 63%

Author:     Sara Berg, MS
Source:     American Medical Association
Publication Date:     SEP 15, 2022
 Link: Pandemic pushes U.S. doctor burnout to all-time high of 63%
Stephan:   Further evidence that America's illness profit system when stressed trends towards failure. Sixty three percent of physicians report they are verging on burnout. This is going to have a notably strong impact on rural areas, particularly in Red states which, because of the Dobbs decision, already have healthcare systems under stress. We are seeing a growing number of medical deserts where healthcare is at third world levels, and that is going to leave us woefully unprepared for the next pandemic. The whole system needs to be restructured so that it is based on wellbeing not profit.
A rural American medical desert

Three in five physicians reported at least one manifestation of burnout during the height of the Omicron wave that struck the U.S. during the winter of 2021–2022, pushing physician burnout rates to an all-time high and demonstrating more than ever the need for a renewed national commitment to bolster the physicians and other health professionals who have worked so tirelessly to save countless lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Between Dec. 9, 2021, and Jan. 24, 2022, nearly 2,500 U.S. physicians responded to a survey by researchers from the AMA, the Mayo Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The researchers found that, overall, 62.8% of physicians had at least one manifestation of burnout in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020, 43.9% in 2017, 54.4% in 2014 and 45.5% in 2011. These trends were consistent across nearly all specialties.

Published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the study, “Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians Over the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    We could get a lot more good doctors from Cuba, if we are on better terms with them.