How your typical physicain mom day ends. It’s 7pm. You’ve just finished a twelve‑hour shift. You walk into your home, drop your bag by the door, and immediately hear the chaos: dirty laundry, homework frustrations, dinner preparations, and notifications constantly pinging on your phone. Your body is aching, your mind still running through patient charts,…
Managing Medical Workplace Stress: Burnout in Healthcare Workers
Burnout in Healthcare Workers: A Growing Crisis and How to Address It Updated September 2024. Healthcare workers, the backbone of our medical system, face immense pressure and challenges daily. From long working hours to dealing with life-and-death situations, their job requires both physical and emotional stamina. As a result, burnout in healthcare workers has become a…
Feeling worthwhile in the NICU
A Typical NICU patient I love to think about this one baby boy patient of mine. It was such a feeling worthwhile. He was born into my care nineteen years ago. His mother came into L&D with premature rupture of membranes, without any fever. She was given antibiotics and steroids to mature the baby’s lungs….
How much stress at work can you take?
Stressful work in the NICU I loved my work in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) because there was always some excitement, plenty of intellectual challenges, and various procedures to perform. Some days working in NICU, however, I felt like a fireman running around putting out fires – one baby deteriorating here, another baby needing…
4 Studies Reveal High Rates of Burnout in Healthcare Workers
Burnout among all physicians Burnout in healthcare workers. Forty-seven percent of physicians feeling burned out last year. This is up from a rate of 42 percent in 2020. Published in January 21, 2022 in Medscape’s 2021 “Physician Burnout & Depression Report“. Medscape surveyed 13,069 physicians in 29 specialties from June 29 to Sept. 26, 2021,…
