Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midcareer, report says

Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by frenchyatwork on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:11PM (#22056010)

That's a complicated question. Let's say you're working on a software project that's running late. Does that indicate you should through more software developers at it?

The problem with medicine is that you have a culture of perfectionism in a field where random bad shit naturally happens all the time, and there's a great amount of human suffering. On top of that, perfectionism helps a lot, in the short run, even though it may be toxic in the long run.

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by imgabe on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:14PM (#22056032)

Adding more doctors isn't like adding more developers to a software project. Additional doctors can treat new patients in parallel without affecting the work that other doctors are doing.

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by yayajacky on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:52PM (#22057162)

Right, do you guys know if there is a bird's eye view platform on the net that talks about which region in US is under staffed in terms of physicians? People may be migrating to the cities for jobs and end up in under staffed areas. That could be good information for migrants.

(I am not from Beijing, but something like this: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-11/want-see-doctor-china... and https://www.registerednursing.org/specialty/flight-nurse/)

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Re:Physician burnout widespread, especially among those midc... by wutbrodo on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:34PM (#22056230)

No, the correct analogy would be that you're working on millions of independent software projects and are having trouble handling them all. In which case it would obviously help to add engineers.

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