Date: 5/24/22
Name of podcast: Dr. Patient
Episode title and number: 7 Doctor Burnout and Moral Injury
Episode summary:
Physician burnout is very prevalent in the US, and is predicted to rise in the coming years as the pandemic lingers, the doctor shortage intensifies, and the population of elderly shoots up. In addition, adolescents and young adults today are reporting all time high rates of depression and anxiety, and they’re not even in medical school yet. Raising awareness about burnout and its partner, moral injury, is crucial to beginning to prevent, instead of treat, this workplace phenomenon. My guest is Dr. Karen Leitner, a medicine-pediatrics doctor and now coach to women physicians.
Guest(s): Dr. Karen Leitner of Karen Leitner MD Coaching
Key Terms:
[08:11] - PA process; prior authorization - the process medical offices need to go through with insurance companies when something they want their patient to have is not covered by the patient's insurance company
[22:07] - MA; Medical Assistant
References:
1. AMA article What Doctors Wish Patients Knew About Physician Burnout - no longer available
2. World Health Organization’s definition of burnout - https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupational-phenomenon-international-classification-of-diseases
3. 2019 article by Wendy Dean MD, Simon Talbot MD and Austin Dean ‘Reframing Clinicial Distress: Moral Injury Not Burnout’ and their organization, Fix Moral Injury - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6752815/
4. Article on the history of burnout - https://www.spok.com/blog/physician-burnout-a-history-of-the-not-so-recent-phenomenon-plaguing-clinicians/
4. Articls ‘50+ Shocking Physician Burnout Statistics You’ll Never Believe’ - https://etactics.com/blog/physician-burnout-statistics
6. Karen Leitner MD Coaching - https://www.karenleitnermd.com