emergency medicine leads physicians in h/o marijuana use

[usmle6969]

thought this was a pretty lol chart.


Another really interesting finding is the data on burnout in medscapes 2015 report. EM is still among the top at around 52% but in a new category of "severity of burnout", EM is only right in the middle. Perhaps this means that EM burnout is more of a chronic thing among most EM docs, but you get used to it and it really is more of a 'burn out lite'? Notably, severity of burnout is higher in some more traditionally favorable lifestyle fields like dermatology + allergy.

"Medscape asked burned-out physicians to rate the severity of their burnout from 1 ("does not interfere with my life") to 7 ("so severe that I'm thinking of leaving medicine"). Of interest, specialties reporting the highest severity ratings (nephrology 4.30, cardiology 4.29, and plastic surgery 4.28) were not those with the largest percentage of burned-out physicians."

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[Arcan57]

thought this was a pretty lol chart.


Another really interesting finding is the data on burnout in medscapes 2015 report. EM is still among the top at around 52% but in a new category of "severity of burnout", EM is only right in the middle. Perhaps this means that EM burnout is more of a chronic thing among most EM docs, but you get used to it and it really is more of a 'burn out lite'? Notably, severity of burnout is higher in some more traditionally favorable lifestyle fields like dermatology + allergy.

"Medscape asked burned-out physicians to rate the severity of their burnout from 1 ("does not interfere with my life") to 7 ("so severe that I'm thinking of leaving medicine"). Of interest, specialties reporting the highest severity ratings (nephrology 4.30, cardiology 4.29, and plastic surgery 4.28) were not those with the largest percentage of burned-out physicians."

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Feels right. If you look at the burnout questions, 2 of the 3 are tailor made for describing EP mindset. But while almost all of us feel some burnout, few of us are at a breaking point. I think the knowledge that we have options keeps things simmering rather than boiling over like if our entire life is built around a practice that's going under.

 

[hoot504]

Residency applications are going to go through the roof.

 

[Druggernaut]

Huh. Maybe EPs have been misinterpreting the surveys all these years. When they say they're burned out, they actually meant Cheech and Chong style burnout, not burned out by the job...

 

[Birdstrike]

Huh. Maybe EPs have been misinterpreting the surveys all these years. When they say they're burned out, they actually meant Cheech and Chong style burnout, not burned out by the job...

Lol. Great

 

[2010houston]

Nephrologists are lowest on MJ use but highest on severe burnout.... There's a clear solution to that problem!

 

[Birdstrike]

Is weed therefore a valid treatment for EM shift work sleep disorder, also?


Let's ask Dr Oz

 

[WilcoWorld]

...nevermind, joke already made...