Two doctors say at least half of U.S. physicians experience chronic burnout, describing a sense of dying inside that lasts months or years. The problem is widespread emotional exhaustion, not a temporary slump.
How many doctors do you think identify with that? How many, how many in your field do you think?
Probably, you know, I would say at least half. Half of the doctors in the United States at this time probably feel like that, where they don't want to go to work, that they're, they're dying inside, and You don't know what else to do.
And we're talking repetitive, not just like a day, like, I don't want to go to work, right? We're talking about 4, 5, 6 months, 12 months at a time, right? Constant, right? Yeah. Years. Okay.
Terrible. It is soul crushing. Yeah. Yeah. Still, I still think about it. It's like, oh, God, that was awful. Just to think back, it's like how miserable it's like. I went to school I was in school forever. This was my passion. This is what I wanted to do. And it was awful. And I had no way out. Even when I thought I was gonna take a sabbatical, I didn't even know what that meant. But I thought that could be a viable thing. And then to turn out that I have to have a diagnosis to take time off? Like, really? And I looked at my contract and true enough, that was my contract.
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