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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