Are You Part of the “Great Resignation” in Healthcare?
The pandemic had a major effect on our careers. Doctors were already burning out and then this thing was like gasoline being thrown on a fire. This article talks about it more:
The phenomenon known as the “Great Resignation” has to do with high levels of turnover across industries as businesses and their employees grapple with the economic consequences of 2021. Healthcare, in particular, appears to be the most impacted by this trend, with high percentage of nurses, physicians, and other providers reporting burnout, reports Jackson Physician Search and Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
Turnover or lack of physician retention is problematic for employers. What amazes me is that the administrators can’t figure out why:
Improving the physician workforce experience could prevent nearly half (46 percent) of surveyed physicians from leaving an organization for another employer. However, nearly as many physicians (43 percent) said they were considering early retirement—another healthcare workforce trend in 2021 that could significantly impact the already dwindling supply of physicians.
The Physician Retention Survey revealed a serious disconnect between physicians and administrators. While a previous survey showed similar perceptions of the current levels of physician burnout among physicians and administrators—both agree that levels are high—they did not see eye-to-eye on the reasons why physicians are feeling burnout.
And here is the key point:
Most physicians said their current employer/practice was driving burnout, whereas administrators were more likely to attribute physician burnout to the nature of practicing medicine, the white paper stated.
This situation WILL NOT change. Admins will continue to deflect on being responsible and blame it on the profession. That’s just human nature.
Here is my advice.
IF YOUR EMPLOYER IS CAUSING YOU TO BURN OUT THEN LEAVE.
And consider doing Direct Primary Care or Direct Specialty Care.
(This post is being shared on www.dpcnews.com as well).
Burnout?!! or Moral Injury? Why would any right minded physician not be fed up with overregulation, increasing responsibility and liability with less and less control and less ability to properly treat patients while some pimply faced college grad tells YOU how to practice YOUR profession? 10 administrators for every doctor, EMR cash register masquerading as a necessity for patient care, HIPAA creating morbidity and mortality, Private Equity squeezing every last dollar out of healthcare while gobbling up hospitals and practices, Insurers refusing to pay for necessary meds and procedures and the media endlessly denigrating and diminishing our profession. And the best for last, our very own colleagues moving up the administrative ladder, buying into the bullshit and eating their young of you step out of line.
Ohhhhhhh, so good to be retired! Don’t have to deal with this stuff anymore, though wife who was five years younger died through no fault of her own and mentally handicapped son, who does better with supervision, were incentives for me to give up in 2020. Glad I saved up a good nest egg. Life is better now without primary care medicine on my slate.
One has to be “touched in the head” to go into F.P. these days unless….. Only office work, a paid decent salary and none of this production B.S. No hospital work and no call. Yeah, I bet one would be lucky to find that!
Go to a rural area and I suspect the locals still want the docs to “do it all” for peanuts.
My advice: “Stay away from F.P. Period. After paying dues for years, the AAFP “bastids” still wanted $920.00 to be place on a “retirement status list.” Well, that group can roast in Hades as far as I’m concerned!!!
Kurt
Retired end of 2019 and right there with ya, Kurt.
18 months ago we all started hearing that all health care workers were “heroes,” and there were fashionable demonstrations of mass clapping from urban windows, jet flyovers, media and corporate ads praising us all, and a non-stop year of fashionable celebration. It was bullshit, and I said so then (https://authenticmedicine.com/2020/03/i-am-angry/), made worse by the fecklessness of our profession and the corruption of the health care industry. The government overreach has turned into an open assault on the autonomy of health care workers, and it is has been tragically predictable how rapidly the media has led large segments of this stupid, fearful society to damn us. We now see what a great many truly think of us, and those who can are justified in flipping the rest off and walking away.
Also a big article in THE ATLANTIC on the same subject.
A wide segment of the population is now anti-doctor/ anti-medicine…or at least very suspicious of us….How many of your patients say they got one Covid test that was negative and then one that was positive……greetings to the world of modern medicine
They claim COVID deaths are exaggerated since hospitals get more for COVID patients. Does anyone ever know how much money hospitals really get?
It is disheartening to hear everyone now say: if I get COVID, I will just take that new pill, so why waste my time and suffer side effects of a vaccination?
There are rumors doctors are faking diagnoses to get paid more.
I have patients determining my political affiliation by the fact that I follow CDC guidelines.
I have read “funny” web reviews complaining that they are downrating physicians who are unable to achieve 100% vaccination rates for their staff, and then another person complaining about having to wear a mask in the doctor’s office and also about waiting in their car rather than the waiting room.
WE CANNOT WIN….IF RETIREMENT IS ON YOUR HORIZON, I SEE EVERY REASON TO MOVE IT UP.
There was one piece of measly good news….solo doc all get the hardship exemption and no MIPS payment penalty for not filing. BUT I AM STILL GETTING PAID LESS AND IS THERE NOT RECORD INFLATION?
A little OT, but in regard to MIPS:
AAFP tried to take credit for getting MIPS exemptions because of Covid. They said that FP’s shouldn’t have to bear the burden of MIPS while dealing with the Covid pandemic. Of course, they didn’t say why FP’s should be forced into shouldering the (uncompensated) burden of MIPS in the first place.
You’re talking about the same AAFP that sucked every congressional dick in DC in order to get MIPS passed? The same AAFP that was dancing in the streets when it went into effect?
And now that AAFP wants to be raised to the skies because they asked for a temporary respite from a small part of the administrative burden that they worked so hard to enact?
You couldn’t make this crap up if you tried.