“If things don’t change I’m taking an early retirement”
“Yes. I am so !*%# frustrated I will quit as soon as possible. Computers are sh**. Administrators are self-serving a**holes. Bureaucracy costs me several hours of wasted time every day. I have practiced for 30 years and for the first 20 I could practice efficiently. Nothing is more frustrating than all these regulators who don't know the difference between a needle driver and a crescent Wrench wasting my time.”
EHRs, dealing with payers and pre-auth, regulatory compliance, and bureaucracy all came within mere percentage points of one another as the main culprits. All have a common theme: they are time consuming and prevent the physician from providing care for the patient.
When asked what aspects of their work make them feel the most stressed while treating COVID-19 patients, we saw a tremendous response from physicians from a wide variety of specialties. Regardless of their discipline, all clinicians are frustrated to one extent or another. A psychiatrist said, “Nearly all my patients are pretty severely stressed and many are relapsing with their illness. I’m seeing too many patients in a day and responding to too many patients in a day. It’s exhausting.” When asked about causes of burnout a dermatologist added, “Mostly lack of staff and money worries.”
"Overall, I love my job-- it's the stuff that takes me away from the practice of medicine (charting, filling out paperwork, arguing with insurance companies, fighting to get patients access to needed services) that is frustrating."
Radiology is the early adopter of technology of healthcare. Need proof? The majority (73%) of holdouts in adopting speech recognition have plans to finally take the plunge.
We received a tremendous response from physicians in a wide variety of specialties. Regardless of their discipline, all are frustrated to one extent or another. Here are the top reasons physicians are reaching the end of their tethers.
In concert with BYU’s Department of Public Health we conducted in-depth research with provider organizations across the country on social determinants of health (SDoH).