When it comes to work-life balance, providers in the past skewed more toward work than life.
However, shifting demographics in the medical workforce, increasing capacity for communication and the COVID-19 pandemic have fundamentally altered that calculus.
“The expectation and acceptance that doctors should work all day and all week with no time for themselves and their families has definitely changed,” Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, director of the Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, and chief of breast medical oncology at the Yale Cancer Center, told Healio