What’s to blame for physician burnout? 5 survey stats

In “Back From Burnout: Confronting the Post-pandemic Physician Turnover Crisis,” an October report from the Medical Group Management Association and Jackson Physician Search, physicians were surveyed on where they think burnout comes from. 

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The survey, conducted in August 2022, received responses from 326 physicians and healthcare administrators.

Here’s how physicians viewed the causes of burnout:

  1. Eight percent of physicians viewed burnout as totally caused by their current employer
  2. Thirty-two percent of physicians viewed burnout as caused more by their current employer than simply the nature of being a physician
  3. Fourteen percent of physicians viewed their current employer and the nature of being a physician as equal causes of burnout
  4. Thirty-two percent of physicians viewed burnout as caused more by the nature of being a physician
  5. Fourteen percent of physicians viewed burnout as totally caused by the nature of being a physician

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