Physician Well-being: Cases and Solutions
Peter Yellowlees, "Physician Well-being: Cases and Solutions"
English | ISBN: 1615372407 | 2020 | 265 pages | EPUB | 989 KB
English | ISBN: 1615372407 | 2020 | 265 pages | EPUB | 989 KB
Fictional, but thorough and realistic, case studies are at the heart of Physician Well-Being. One per chapter, they allow readers to get inside the minds of physicians and understand their lives and stressors, from long hours and staff shortages to onerous administrative demands.
For although physicians tend to live, on average, 2 years longer than nonphysicians in the general population, when it comes to mental health, the situation is more dire: 10–15 years after entering medical school, the average physician has twice the level of burnout of the average professional nonphysician. Suicide rates among physicians are 1.4 and 2 times higher than in the general population for men and women, respectively. Abuse of prescribed drugs is also higher than in community control subjects.
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