The Doctor Can't See You Now (with Dr. Christine Sinsky)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
Lemonada Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Americans are having a hard time getting in to see a doctor, and burnout among heathcare workers is a leading reason why. The stressors of the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated a burnout crisis among physicians and nurses. But even before the pandemic, burnout was already a rampant problem for physicians and other health workers. Dr. Bob Wachter sits in for Andy and talks with AMA vice president and burnout expert Christine Sinsky about the root causes of burnout and what it will mean for all of us.
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome to In the Bubble. I'm Dr. Bob Wockter, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine |
| 1:26.0 | at the University of California San Francisco and I'm sitting in for Andy Slavitt. |
| 1:31.0 | The pandemic has been extraordinarily stressful for clinicians. Recent surveys show sky high levels of burnout among physicians, |
| 1:39.0 | which seems understandable after three arduous years. |
| 1:42.0 | I recently heard from a CEO of a very large health system who told me that he had more physicians die in his system of suicide than of COVID during the pandemic. |
| 1:52.0 | But the seeds of burnout were planted long before the pandemic and physicians are not the only health professions who are suffering from burnout. |
| 1:59.0 | The nursing profession is also quite troubled. |
| 2:02.0 | And the consequences is a tremendous nursing shortage and actually a fairly significant physician shortage in certain regions, one that is compromising patient care. |
| 2:12.0 | So today we're going to talk about burnout among clinicians, why it happens, why patients should care about it, and what can be done about it. |
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