Physician burnout by specialty area
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wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 17:50 last edited by
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%. -
wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 17:50 last edited by
I’d like to see it adjusted for gender
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wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 17:55 last edited by
Adjust it for money.
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wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 18:22 last edited by
Obstetrics and gynecology: 54%.
Probably the stress at having to guess what gender to put on the birth certificate.
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wrote on 4 Sept 2023, 19:08 last edited by
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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wrote on 5 Sept 2023, 23:44 last edited by
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
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 00:49 last edited by@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.
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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.
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 00:57 last edited by@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.
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 01:04 last edited by@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.
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 02:38 last edited by@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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wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 08:50 last edited by Klaus 9 Jun 2023, 08:51
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?
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 11:35 last edited by@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.
wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 11:40 last edited by@George-K said in Physician burnout by specialty area:
No idea what a Texaco Mike is.
He's a recurring character in rural medicine.
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wrote on 6 Sept 2023, 11:54 last edited by
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.