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BY MIAN A. JAN, MD, FACC, FSCAI
PRESIDENT OF CHESTER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY

Wherever the art of medicine is loved,
there is also love for Humanity.
- Hippocrates, father of medicine

T

wo studies authored by Mayo Clinic and AMA that
were published in 2014 showed rates of burnout among
physicians to be as high as 54%, a significant increase of
10% from 2011, just 3 years previous.
This prompted a recent survey by NEJM Catalyst Insight
Council which I feel is worth looking at. Healthcare is placing
a tremendous burden on physicians with no end in sight and
decreasing reimbursement; they are compounding this burden by
adding stress to their non-health-industry-related burden.
How does one define burnout? "It's a syndrome of
depersonalization, emotional exhaustion and a sense of low
personal accomplishment" that can develop slowly over time due
to chronic persistent stress, inability to cope with inefficiency in the
system, and increasing workload.

DR. MIAN ARSHAD JAN

Ninety-six percent of respondents in the Catalyst survey felt
that physician burnout is a real problem. More members from the
Northeast (46%) felt the problem to be more serious as compared
to the West (32%); Midwest (31%) and South (31%). As we
know, most new regulations and quality measures start in the
Northeast which can be a source of increased burnout.

Top factors mentioned in physician burnout were:
Increased clerical burden: 62%
Increased productivity requirements: 51%
Reimbursement model: 21%
Erosion of professionalism: 21%
Excessive metrics: 18%
Excessive work hours: 11%

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