Physician Burnout

The Senate recently passed a bill to address the stigma that health care professionals often face when seeking mental health services.

Despite the intent of the AMA and CMS, updates to frequently used billing codes led to “no meaningful changes” in note length or time spent on electronic health records, researchers wrote.

Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, and Laura B. Enyedi, MD, talk with Jaya B. Kumar, MD, FASRS, and Jullia A. Rosdahl, MD, PhD, about addressing physician suicide and destigmatizing mental health. Plus, they share their favorite resilience hacks.

Burnout, stress and suicide rates have reached “crisis levels” among health care professionals, according to the AMA Alliance.

Resident physicians had high levels of functionally impairing depressive symptoms during internship year, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

New data show that Suki, a voice-activated and artificial intelligence-based tool that helps physicians with their note-taking process, continues to dramatically reduce the time that physicians spend on documentation.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put an enormous strain on health care workers and exacerbated existing burnout and staffing shortages. Many workers have reported considering leaving the profession altogether.

Data from a study found that one in seven women in the U.S. will be overdiagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes.

Practice management coverage in 2021 included work that must be done to reduce physician burnout throughout medicine and questions about how the COVID-19 pandemic could affect clinical practice protocols in the future.

Exhaustion. Fear. Burnout. Uncertainty. Stress. Trauma. Grief.