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Are you surprised? I am not! 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 The reasons why doctors quit the system are not a mystery: - bureaucracy - moral injury (aka abuse) - poor leadership - corporate values (money vs humans) - lack of independency to practice - lack of resources - unnecessary task - nonvaluable metric ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ The consequences? 65% of doctors are burnout. 60% are depressed. 400 doctors die yearly by suicide in US 120 attempt suicide per year. Do you want doctors to stay in your hospital/clinic? Respect them. Let them do their jobs! If you are a patient and you care about your doctors, advocate for them. The healers are suffering. And without healers who will take care of patients? 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) American Medical Association American College of Physicians Hounds Of Business Community South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association Florida Medical Association Extraordinary Women Leading Change Chief Latina Chief Labcorp Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation Coalition for Physician Well-Being Clinician Burnout Foundation Physician Executive Leadership Moral Injury of Healthcare Nurses Transforming Healthcare Dade County Medical Association (DCMA) Women In Medicine™ #moralinjury #burnoutprevention #healthcare #qualityhealthcare #medicine #physicianwellness #nursepractitioner #quietquitting #publichealth #healthadvocacy
I have some terrific doctors now but it wasn’t always that way. However, I know they are victims too so I excuse some of the oversights in my care. A doctor doesn’t have as much flexibility in regards to positions as nurses. If a MD works for a health care system, they do not have as much autonomy and are at risk for abuse. If they work in private practice, they do not have advantages of expedient billing, less overhead expense and quality/risk managed charting systems which protect them from liability. There are trade offs either way.
This post hits so many nerves within me it's giving me chills. You have hit all the high points why I ultimately decided to leave medicine. Thanks for your advocacy, Miriam Zylberglait (Dr.Z) 🦋!
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8moIt’s nice that NPR is starting to acknowledge just a few of the failures of a system that has been sick and broken for many years. It makes a case for the importance of telemedicine for building healthcare provider relationships with a practitioner. Obviously, it’s not the only solution but it is a start. I can’t even imagine seeing a conventional MD at this point. What would we discuss? Who has the energy to school them continuously on the constant “white lies?” Should we discuss one-size fits all care that could never work for me after being so damaged by the system? What part of, “I need an anti-inflammatory don’t you understand?” It would be like carrying on a conversation with someone who knew just enough about medicine to kill me and not enough to get me better. Ummmm…line up for more abuse? I couldn’t even imagine seeing an American neurologist. Do they even read the papers that they write? You have the right idea here, living your life out in the open to demonstrate a healthy mindset to people who need more care. Moving your practice to telemedicine so that you can share your story is great!