Here are 14 common causes of physician burnout, according to the Medscape Physician Lifestyle Report 2015.
Physicians were asked to rate the causes of burnout on a scale of one ("not at all important") to seven ("extremely important").
• Too many bureaucratic tasks — 4.74
• Spending too many hours at work — 3.99
• Income not high enough — 3.71
• Increasing computerization of practice — 3.68
• Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — 3.65
• Feeling like a cog in a wheel — 3.54
• Too many difficult patients — 3.37
• Too many patient appointments in a day — 3.34
• Inability to provide patients with the quality care they need — 3.22
• Lack of professional fulfillment — 3.05
• Difficult colleagues or staff — 2.9
• Inability to keep up with current research or recommendations — 2.86
• Compassion fatigue (overexposure to death, violence and/or other loss in patients) — 2.8
• Difficult employer — 2.8
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