Physician burnout is a reality that now plagues the US healthcare industry like never before. However, this epidemic of exhausted physicians working on “depleted batteries” isn't a new story. A study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings reports that 63% of physicians had experienced burnout in 2021, compared with 38.2% in 2020. The problem has only worsened in the present age of healthcare consumerism, where patient demands are often hard to keep up with. Healthcare businesses lose about $4.6 billion every year due to consequences triggered by physician burnout which include but are not limited to
