Physician Burnout: The Real Reason Doctors Burn Out | NBC Left Field

I’m a physician and so despondent. I pour everything into my patients and one person being turned away for showing up 25 min late leaves a 1 star review. Our clinic is still a business. We are doing are best and we expect personal responsibility. This is just one example. Patients often say “you all haven’t sent in my prior auth yet” when the pharmacy lied to them or never sent it to us.

I am a doctor and wanted to be since I was 3 years old.
I’m I’m heartbroken to say I have resigned from my clinical job.
I have felt stuck, desperate and suicidal on multiple occasions. I can’t keep going.

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The EHR is a BIG part of the problem! I supported Health Reform, and compact, legible records are NOT, in and of themselves, a Bad thing. But there are usability issues, and if you use WiFi, and the reception is bad...that SUCKS. The EHR itself can go down, and, also, you can be held hostage by ransomware! In addition, insurance companies and malpractice lawyers can use it to club us over the head with. In one local practice (The boss physician owns the clinics) two Medicaid HMOs have audited them. And, dig THIS: they had to print out and handwrite thousands of charts, and countersign them.
Now, to be FAIR: this audit was Really about our rule that patients on controlled medications need to follow up with them (either in person or every other time, by video chat) every two weeks. It's to "Insure compliance" but, it's really GREED. Also, the two clinics charge Medicaid patients who are on opioid replacement therapy (Suboxone, Subutex) a large surcharge, which is of questionable legality.
We are blamed for our "poor SOAP notes" but that's only part of the issue.

So happy I came across this. I'm not a doctor but a NP. When I got out of med school I was so gun-ho and ready to treat patients. Now after 8 years I have burn out. All the new rules, dealing with insurance companies, the cost of meds and drugs. Trying to explain to patients why their meds are not covered or why they got a large bill. I used to spend time with my patients and really get to know them and address their issues and now it's a rat race to see them, treat them and get them out and off to the next one. This is not medicine but a business model. The sad side is patients don't see this and only see they pay for medical insurance and should be getting great service which they should but in truth the insurance companies and hospitals are the ones putting pressure on physicians to change.

Have to point out that veterinarians have just as high, if not higher, rate of suicide as us in human medicine. Same long school with debt, lower salary, very few thankful clients, and seeing animal abuse/neglect ever day.

Burnout is just a victim-blaming euphemism for exploitation and alienation... if hospitals really wanted to reduce “burnout”, there are a lot of easy things they could do AND they even save a ton of money in the long term... but it might get in the way of quarterly reports and when a provider leaves, they can hire someone with less experience for cheaper who won’t know better...

“Burnout”, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature...

EHR, ACA , Medicare , regulation transform to ICD 10 ...

Is burnout a 'made up' disease? Asking for a friend.

I am an orthopedic surgery resident and I am anxious as hell

so so sad, we just DONT talk, dont recognise humanity

God will give you strength

Well done!

This was actually about what I expected it to be... Because I work in the health system but I'm also affected by it as a patient... We need to make real changes but are governments and entities really interested in doing so? They have been hit in the head with climate issues yet they do nothing, statistics show how bad the gun laws are right now yet they do nothing... This is just one more item in the list of things the governments and other entities are consciously deciding to ignore. Because it's not profitable

Try being a combat veteran also... Spare me your tears as you go home to your family every night! Suck it up

this applies to nurses and all health care workers.....I had to laugh...essential oils won't solve it...really....sad....I have to fight to have time to FACE my patients.....One has to look into their eyes...it makes a difference.....its part of the healing process......important film!!!

Lawyers and insurance companies. Or in one simple word, greed. That's the problem. Medical professionals are not to blame.

This is why health services needs to be socialized. The root of the problem is that hospitals need to make a profit to stay running, valuing the quantity of patients over the quality of their care.

I personally think that using a scribe to document for the Provider is the best way to address the need for using EHR while preserving the human interaction between patient and Provider.

True. My dad’s a doctor. He’s not stressed or depressed, but does say that it’s annoying to do paperwork. But it’s necessary since everyone always likes to find a reason to sue.

Damn. This is awful.