Our doctors are NOT alright

[Hawkeye10]

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing issue of clinician burnout related to health IT use, according to a national survey from the Physicians Foundation. The “2021 Survey of America’s Physicians, COVID-19 Impact Edition: A Year Later” found that the added stress of the pandemic resulted in greater clinician burnout.

Over six in ten (61 percent) of physicians experienced feelings of burnout during the pandemic, a significant jump from the 40 percent of reported physicians in 2018.
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Notably, female physicians (69 percent) were 12 percent more likely to report frequent feelings of burnout compared male physicians (57 percent).

Younger physicians (64 percent) were also 5 percentage points more likely to report feeling frequently burned out compared to older physicians (59 percent).

Additionally, physicians who worked for hospitals or health systems experienced burnout more frequently (64 percent) when compared to independent physicians (56 percent).

While the survey reveals the negative effects of COVID-19 on physicians’ wellbeing, the findings also highlight the vital role of support systems; 89 percent of physicians cite their family as essential in supporting their wellbeing, followed by friends (82 percent) and colleagues (71 percent).

More than half (53 percent) of physicians also noted that their medical practice or group has been helpful in supporting their mental health and wellbeing.

https://ehrintelligence.com/news/cov...alth-it-burden

This does not end well.

[Jack]

Maybe they are in the wrong Profession?

[Hawkeye10]

Maybe they are in the wrong Profession?

Maybe we should fix the medical system.

And No, Obama never intended to try...he was lying yet again.

[Hawkeye10]

Miller: That was a different era of world history, even though it’s only a year and a bit ago. What do you see as the biggest stressors right now for nurses that are making them leave in large numbers?

Barschow: A lot of it has to do with what’s been mentioned, or you might be hearing already. A lot of stress, exhaustion, burnout. People are just done. They want to leave the profession altogether. They want to be able to work safely in an environment, have the staffing that they need to safely care for patients and keep communities healthy. So it’s up to hospitals to provide these things. It’s their responsibility to resource so that we can do our jobs and provide the best patient care. So when people are coming to work in situations that are short staffed and you don’t really know what’s coming in through the door. High volume of patients, high acuity, vulnerable populations that haven’t sought care maybe throughout the whole year or more due to the pandemic, medically fragile patients, social determinant needs, psychiatric needs. All of that, combined with the shortages and staffing and not just nursing, but all of the health care professionals and the ancillary staff around that really need to support the patients to keep them healthy.

https://www.opb.org/article/2021/07/...urses-to-quit/

Jodi Barschow, a Registered Nurse and the President of the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.

[martin]

Maybe they are in the wrong Profession?

Maybe know nothings should shut up.

[Geeko Sportivo]

I remember back in the 70's when DWI accidents were so plentiful here in Dallas, Tx, our County Hospital, Parkland Memorial Hospital was bringing in victims from DWI accidents every hour on the hour from 8PM to 4AM every night of the week, but even more on the weekends. It got so bad, that one DWI court judge made it a condition of parole in his court, to require 80 hours of public service where, if you were convicted of DWI in his court, you were required to sit in the Surgery Room Observatory of Parkland hospital between the hours of 8PM - 4AM on Friday and Saturday nights for a whole month under the watch of Dallas Police parole officers.

Watching victims go through surgeries and watching victims die on the operating table and pronounced dead on arrival from automobile accidents, gunshot victims, and etc. had a very sobering effect on people getting DWI's.

This went on for over a decade.

I think everyone needs to experience that personally, and observe how much stress and all of the work is involved by Emergency room staffs, while they work to save the lives of people suffering from all kinds of traumatic injuries and illnesses.

If you do not want to get a vaccine, you should be forced to watch all the work involved at an ICU by the medical staffs to try to keep these people alive- FOR JUST ONE NIGHT!

And every little gangbanger convicted of Gang related illegal activities should have to sit and watch how much goes into the saving the life of gunshot victims

I can guarantee you that if you have never seen what goes on in these ICU units, you will never be able to appreciate what Emergency room staffs have to deal with on a daily basis in their lives.

[Walt]

https://ehrintelligence.com/news/cov...alth-it-burden

This does not end well.

If anything nurses are far more burned out. We are really looking at collapse right now.

The worst part of this new wave is that doctors and nurses know it is not necessary. They are being asked to stress themselves over people who chose not to get vaccinated.