Physician Burn Out Rate by Specialty

[projectlogic]

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[KinasePro]

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Surprised to see PM&R above average. Also, I've seen a few surveys that cast the surgical subspecialties in a different light -- some said urology has the least burnout, others said it has the most.

I'm too lazy to read this paper (sorry) and don't know if they looked at it, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that burnout correlates with age more than specialty. In some of the aforementioned surveys, the younger surgeons tended to burn out more and work harder (also too lazy to cite, but a quick pubmed search will get to you the surveys).

Besides, there's so much self selection in medicine, that I have a hard time buying that the burn-outs in EM & Gen IM would not have burned out in nsurg, too. Different fields require different levels of moxie.

 

[duckie99]

I think all we can really take from this is that EM is very high and Derm is very low while there are similar rates between most other fields.

I would like to see stats of burnout comparing physicians to other professions. Sure medicine is stressful but I am confident there likely wouldn't be much of a difference between many jobs as a whole. This leads me to believe that "burnout" is a nonissue since you can't really avoid it no matter what job you do.

 

[apoptosis123]

Surprised to see neurosurgery relatively low

 

[kpcrew]

Surprised to see neurosurgery relatively low

Well it's self reported.

 

[ShipInABottle]

Well it's self reported.

Probably too busy to fill out a survey lol

 

[sibitrum]

I'm struggling to see the pattern here.

 

[neusu]

Surprised to see neurosurgery relatively low

If you love what you do and go in to it for the right reasons it's hard to burn out..

 

[umean2tellme]

I'm a little surprised that radiology was above average. I thought the only thing that stresses them out are bright lights.

 

[notbobtrustme]

I'm a little surprised that radiology was above average. I thought the only thing that stresses them out are bright lights.

well they do see 200+ patients a day 😛

 

[Lunasly]

I'm actually surprised that family medicine is so high on the list.

 

[b-real]

I'm actually surprised that family medicine is so high on the list.

Yeah, wall-to-wall patients, most noncompliant, during an extended work day, for relatively low compensation. What could be better?

 

[flodhi1]

Yeah, wall-to-wall patients, most noncompliant, during an extended work day, for relatively low compensation. What could be better?

The feeling that you made a difference.