Posts filed under: Disruptive Physicians

Managing Stress in the Orthopaedic Family: Avoiding Burnout, Achieving Resilience

Journal of Bone and Joint Conclusions: “The results of our national survey highlight the continued prevalence of these problems within the academic orthopaedic community. Left unaddressed, burnout and psychological dis- tress can lead to patient care errors, decreased marital harmony, and physician impairment. As physicians, it is our responsibility to recognize and address impairment in......

Physicians & Pay-for-Professionalism

While healthcare has readily adopted Pay-for-Performance relating to technical skills, perhaps the time has come to embrace Pay-for-Professionalism for physicians. Should we admit that these non-technical skills matter enough for a new approach? If physician productivity is important enough to be incentivized, shouldn’t we do the same for professionalism? A wealth of research has shown a correlation......

Physician specialties with the most—and the least—burnout

From the 2013 Medscape survey on physician burnout, here is a sampling of the highest and lowest physician burnout rates by specialty:   Highest rate of physician burnout: Emergency medicine (51%) Critical care (50%) Family medicine (43%)   Lowest rate of physician burnout: Pathology (32%) Psychiatry (33%) (Tied) Ophthalmology (35%) Pediatrics (35%) Rheumatology (35%)  ...