I am not sure if you saw this study or article but let me give you the title:
Surprisingly, physician burnout could contribute to slightly better outcomes, new study suggests
Yes, you read that right. The author even puts this in the bullet point section:
Despite concerns about widespread provider burnout as the pandemic stretches into its third year, a new study found no evidence that burnout negatively impacts the quality of patient care. Counterintuitively, physicians who report burnout could be contributing to slightly better outcomes instead.
Imagine working in the system and the administrators see this? The right ones will still realize that burnout causes drug abuse, home issues, alcohol issues, depression, suicide, and so much more. They will ignore this study and still try to work on making the environment better for their doctors. And there are ways to do this.
But how many good administrators are out there? How many care? Even worse, how many bad ones are there who will see this study and use it against you? You can just see them in meetings saying such things as:
“I knew this burnout phenomenon was nothing.”
“Those doctors need more resilience.”
“Doctors are just babies.”
“As long as the metrics are good then who cares if they burn out?”
I hope the system changes for those who cannot get out. For those who are thinking about it, please consider DIRECT PRIMARY CARE and be your own boss.
Administrators by in large do not care about physicians. They only care about their “metrics” revolving around the next anticipated “JCAHO” visit so they can shine their 1.2 million dollar shoes (which they purchased with their 15 million dollar bonus – whilst you have 2 nurses to run 5 medical floors) and look pretty. They will get an obtuse “award” for some non-patient centered metric, and flaunt their “status symbol” in front of the public while the shit-show continues behind the drapes (Think wizard of oz style – pay no attention to reality!)
Sadly this will continue until the people (Physicians, providers in general, nurses, etc..) put their combined foot up the administrators asses as we shove them the hell out the door. The system is fatally flawed and sadly, we have allowed this by not collectively stopping this mess. This will implode – it is destiny for a top heavy administratively burdened system that is running amok.