Physician burnout has been deemed a public health
crisis and one of the most concerning issues facing our patients and the
medical profession. If we don’t address it urgently and consistently together
This crisis will continue to affect the overall health care of our patients and
continue to erode the mental health of clinicians across the country.
By 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services predicts that there will be a nationwide shortage of nearly 90,000
physicians, many driven away from medicine or out of practice because of the
effects of burnout. Further complicating matters is the cost an employer
must incur to recruit and replace a physician, estimated at between
$500,000-$1,000.000.
In this video, Dr. Alain Chaoui, President of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, addresses the challenges and solutions on how to
bring back the joy in medicine.
Download the white paper A
Crisis in Health Care: A Call to Action on Physician Burnout published by
the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Health
Institute, the Massachusetts Medical Society and Massachusetts Health and
Hospital Association which includes directives aimed
toward curbing the prevalence of burnout among physicians and other care
providers.
