13. Patients Causing Provider Burnout

We hear a lot about why healthcare providers are so burned out. Most of the discussion is centered around the horrible systems we work in, medical insurance frustration, loss of provider autonomy, increasing complexity, and long hours. However, another important factor related to provider burnout is our increasingly unhealthy patients who do not take any responsibility for their own health and seam to ask the world of us. In practice, we complain about these people all the time. We cringe when we see them on our schedules. Alarmingly, this group of people appears to be growing, both in size and number! I believe that these patients and the lack of personal responsibility in healthcare is a huge problem. This podcast discusses these issues. It is all based on my opinion and personal experience. I think it will resonate with many of the listeners....assuming anyone is actually listening that is.