Experts declare physician burnout ‘a public health crisis’

Experts from leading U.S. health organizations deemed physician burnout “a public health crisis” in a recent report.
“Physician burnout has received some attention in recent years, but not enough. As a result, it is both poorly understood and getting worse,” Andrew R. Iliff, MA, JD, lead writer and program manager at Harvard Global Health Institute, told Healio Psychiatry.
“Like the blind man describing an elephant, people have described the challenges in front of them, including unhelpful electronic health records and a looming physician shortage,” he

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