Tag: Burnout

Nearly 40 Percent Of Neuroradiologists Think About Retiring Early Because Of Severe Burnout

Almost every working individual experiences burnout at some point or other due to excessive job-related stress. Working throughout the week and sometimes even on weekends, to complete assignments before the deadline often overwhelms a person. Nowadays, almost every employed individual strives to go to any extent to fulfill monthly targets and meet their manager’s expectations. […]

Exhaustion and Burnout in Healthcare is Common among Physicians and Other Professionals

Most of the studies looking at job satisfaction and burnout in the healthcare industry are focused on physicians only. However, the latest findings as published in the JAMA Network Open examined such feelings, as well as others, among nonphysician workers in the healthcare industry too, such as nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, and pharmacists. The […]

Tips for Radiologists to Stay Prepared for Practice Burnout

Burnout is one of the most common global health problems that affect physicians in different medical specialties. But in particular, radiologists are experiencing very high rates of burnouts, and this trend is not expected to end soon. Burnout is a kind of exhaustion, in which the practitioner feels depersonalized and unaccomplished, and compromises his physical […]

Burnout is Now Classified by the World Health Organization

The World Health Organization (WHO) has now classified burnout as a typical “syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully  managed.” WHO added burnout to the international classification of diseases, on May 28, and gave it an ICD-11 code. Although WHO classifies burnout as an occupational phenomenon, not a medical […]