By Aleisha Orr
One in seven GPs experience it and WA junior doctors report it at moderate-to-high levels – what is causing burnout among doctors and how can it be fixed?
It takes a lot to shake Dr Angela Alessandri. She’d previously gone through breast cancer and losing her sister, but after the most stressful year in her clinical paediatric haematology and oncology career, she finally decided she could not continue with her workload as it was.
The chest pains she had a week prior when walking away from a parent of one of her patients...
One in seven GPs experience it and WA junior doctors report it at moderate-to-high levels – what is causing burnout among doctors and how can it be fixed?
It takes a lot to shake Dr Angela Alessandri. She’d previously gone through breast cancer and losing her sister, but after the most stressful year in her clinical paediatric haematology and oncology career, she finally decided she could not continue with her workload as it was.
The chest pains she had a week prior when walking away from a parent of one of her patients...
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