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Dealing with Burnout

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Rates of burnout for the emergency medicine physician have been historically high, and the incidence for emergency medicine residents and physicians is estimated at 60–80%.Though some individual factors are attributed to burnout, many systems and organizational-level issues highly influence the level of burnout in the physician workforce. It is safe to say that the majority of physicians took on the practice of medicine with the intent of deriving significant well-being from their careers, but many physicians continue to suffer with symptoms of burnout. As a starting point to recovering from burnout, physicians can commit to working through their past trauma, work on setting boundaries, and focus on making changes to rediscover the joy in their work.

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  1. Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Nicole Battaglioli

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Battaglioli, N. (2023). Dealing with Burnout. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_96

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