Physician burnout by specialty area
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From the AMA.
For the most stressful medical job in 2022, the highest percentages of burnout occurred among six physician specialties. They are:
Emergency medicine: 62%.
Hospital medicine: 59%.
Family medicine: 58%.
Pediatrics: 55%.
Obstetrics and gynecology: 54%.
Internal medicine: 52%. -
Obstetrics and gynecology: 54%.
Probably the stress at having to guess what gender to put on the birth certificate.
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Interesting, but not really surprising.
Couple of thoughts. First of all the AMA doesn't represent the majority of physicians (I think only 30% are members), though it might be that non-members participated in the survey. A sample of 13,000 is surely a large sample.
Another survey had not dissimilar results (9,000 docs), but revealed some interesting things, including @jon-nyc 's question.
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I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions! 555
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I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions! 555
@taiwan_girl said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions!
Actually...think about it.
What you see on a microscope slide might determine what kind of surgery a person might need - and it has to be done at the time of the surgery.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@taiwan_girl said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions!
Actually...think about it.
What you see on a microscope slide might determine what kind of surgery a person might need - and it has to be done at the time of the surgery.
@George-K Oops - I thought pathology was the study of dead people.
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@George-K Oops - I thought pathology was the study of dead people.
@taiwan_girl said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
@George-K Oops - I thought pathology was the study of dead people.
It is if you're really bad at it.
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@taiwan_girl said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions!
Actually...think about it.
What you see on a microscope slide might determine what kind of surgery a person might need - and it has to be done at the time of the surgery.
@George-K said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
@taiwan_girl said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
I am not surprised that pathology is one of the lower stress positions!
Actually...think about it.
What you see on a microscope slide might determine what kind of surgery a person might need - and it has to be done at the time of the surgery.
Worked for a guy we called The Great White. Big man, solid white hair in his mid-thirties, confidence of a bull elephant.
There were no statements such as "suggests", "possibly" or "appears to be", anywhere on his reports.
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Hey @George-K , how accurate is the depiction of speciality areas by Dr. Glaucomflecken?
Are neurologists arrogant assholes?
Are pathologists super nice?
Do ophthalmologists have a Jonathan who does all their work for them?
And, most importantly, do rural doctors need Texaco Mike to get a CT scan?
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Hey @George-K , how accurate is the depiction of speciality areas by Dr. Glaucomflecken?
Are neurologists arrogant assholes?
Are pathologists super nice?
Do ophthalmologists have a Jonathan who does all their work for them?
And, most importantly, do rural doctors need Texaco Mike to get a CT scan?
@Klaus said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
Hey @George-K , how accurate is the depiction of speciality areas by Dr. Glaucomflecken?
Very
Are neurologists arrogant assholes?
Yes. And that's partially because they might know the neuroanatomy as well as neurosurgeons, but they can't do a fucking thing about it.
(I loved neurology, and stopped loving it when I realized it's an impotent specialty)
Are pathologists super nice?
Who knows? They live in the bowels of the hospital and we never see them.
Do ophthalmologists have a Jonathan who does all their work for them?
If by Jonathan, you mean a NP who does all the hard work and then prints it out for the doc, yeah, pretty much. But, they do operate, you know, and that's a whole 'other thing.
And, most importantly, do rural doctors need Texaco Mike to get a CT scan?
No idea what a Texaco Mike is.
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@Klaus said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
Hey @George-K , how accurate is the depiction of speciality areas by Dr. Glaucomflecken?
Very
Are neurologists arrogant assholes?
Yes. And that's partially because they might know the neuroanatomy as well as neurosurgeons, but they can't do a fucking thing about it.
(I loved neurology, and stopped loving it when I realized it's an impotent specialty)
Are pathologists super nice?
Who knows? They live in the bowels of the hospital and we never see them.
Do ophthalmologists have a Jonathan who does all their work for them?
If by Jonathan, you mean a NP who does all the hard work and then prints it out for the doc, yeah, pretty much. But, they do operate, you know, and that's a whole 'other thing.
And, most importantly, do rural doctors need Texaco Mike to get a CT scan?
No idea what a Texaco Mike is.
@George-K said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
No idea what a Texaco Mike is.
He's a recurring character in rural medicine.
Link to video -
Funny, and not that far from reality.
One of my teachers (Don) was a guy who was in general practice in rural Illinois. He lived in Walnut, IL. He left that to become an anesthesiologist.
Anyhow, Don was always critical of how some surgeons would screw around wasting time.
- When I did a C-Section, it never took more than an hour.
- I never pinned a hip that way.
- I hated doing ear tubes on infants.
You get the idea.
Don's down-to-earth attitude was one of the inspirations for me to choose the specialty I did. He genuinely had fun.
