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Doctors are like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere [PODCAST]

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“No wonder doctors feel like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere. And this sense of futility is driving burnout. How much patient care will you get out of docs who have moved on to nonclinical jobs, retired early, or committed suicide due to burnout? The time for rumination and hand-wringing is over! It is time for medical organizations to cooperate, take prompt action, and avert a health care crisis by protecting one of their most precious health care resources.”

Banu Symington is a hematology-oncology physician.

She shares her story and discusses her KevinMD article, “No wonder doctors feel like hamsters running on an exercise wheel to nowhere.”

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