Andrew Schutzbank is senior vice-president, development, Iora Health.

Physician burnout as a consequence of systematic design, not an individual issue

Physician
December 23, 2019

Burnout in health care is an epidemic across the nation, contributing to a lack of empathy for patients, poor care, providers electing to leave the workforce, substance abuse, depression, and even provider suicide. In a recently published case study in the American Physicians Group Case Studies in Excellence, Iora Health made a move to shift the conversation around burnout from an individual phenomenon to a …

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Physician burnout as a consequence of systematic design, not an individual issue

Doctors cannot be expected to be financial engineers

Physician
February 20, 2012

Peggy was in her early 70s and suffered from a terrible lung disease known as pulmonary hypertension. So bad in fact, that she had a pump infusing a medicine under her skin 24 hours a day to keep the blood supply to her lungs open. Once started, this medicine, treprostinil, was known to improve life in those with pulmonary hypertension. Unfortunately, like all continuous infusion medicines of this type, it …

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Doctors cannot be expected to be financial engineers