And the Dander Keeps On Rising

This isn úmero cinco in our series of attempts to shed some of this dander. But it keeps on rising. Here are two recent reports both relating to the life-on-the-ground of North American rank and file physicians, especially as that life increasingly revolves around data entry and digital madness over and above everything else.Are physicians suffering from acute, maybe by now chronic, PTSD? In the 20 March 2018 number of the important Boston Globe-affiliated newsfeedSTAT, Elizabeth M étraux, a prolific staffer and author at the eminentorganization Primary Care Progress, gives us another quite useful take on physician burnout. An Iraq War veteran herself, the author gives us a provocative title thatpretty much says it all: " I experienced trauma working in Iraq. I see it now among America ’s doctors. " Her diagnosis is stark.[A]s a health care advocate who has struggled with PTSD, it ’s clear to me that many of our country’s health care providers are struggling with trauma, as well. And we’re doing little to support them.Here ' s another snippet of conversation she recently had with a phyhsician colleague who ' d also served in Iraq.You know, I ’d go back to the field any day. Beats practicing in my clinic. ... I didn’t become a doc to put up with billing codes and power struggles. I thought that PTSD would hit when I came home from Fallujah. It’s so much worse when I come home from the office. Truth is, I’ve lost my sense of purpo se.In what she terms " t...
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