Physician Heal Thyself: Perspectives on Burnout among Doctors (original) (raw)

Medical professionals are passing through turbulent times. Doctors today face many challenges. Fierce competition to get into medical school and subsequently into postgraduate courses, financial burden due to high cost of medical education, keeping abreast with technological advances, pressure for specialization and super-specialization, long working hours, poor diet and recreation make doctors particularly in their formative years highly vulnerable to burnout. This paper deals with the problem of burnout among doctors. For this review medical database such as PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar were searched using keywords, "burnout,""burnout syndrome," and "doctors." Besides relevant newspaper and media reports were included. The review has brought out that burnout is an important issue among doctors. Doctors in various situations face different occupational environments predisposing to prolonged stress and burnout. In government hospitals and health c...