Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter describes severe burnout and depression despite being an elite surgeon, and says virtually every physician in the same high-pressure system is either already burned out or heading there. He calls medicine a hamster wheel that makes burnout inevitable unless the system changes.
He was miserable, completely burned out, frankly very depressed. His anxiety was through the roof. Although he was functioning at an elite level, at home there was nothing left of the person who I had married.
How many doctors did you know in the system that were facing this same issue, this burnout and just—
I don't honestly know any doctors in the system who aren't facing it. Wow, yeah. Because there's two types of doctors, in my opinion, in that system, in that sort of,— hamster wheel scenario where I truly believe there are doctors who are burned out and there are doctors who are going to be burned out.
Yeah.
And it's just a matter of time and frustration.
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