More than half of all healthcare practitioners, or 57 percent, said that on “most days” they feel more attached to computers than their patients, according to a recent survey conducted at the Integrative Health and Medicine conference.
In addition, 65 percent of healthcare practitioners have considered leaving medicine because it was no longer rewarding, according to the poll of 754 practitioners, of which 78 percent where physicians.
It’s the second poll from the conference to raise eyebrows — last week, the same survey population indicated that only 19 percent of providers using telemedicine were getting paid for it by insurance.
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Other results were as follows:
— More than half the time, 56 percent feel disillusioned with their healthcare practice
— 62 percent say they have a patient overload
— 51 percent experience fatigue fifteen or more days per month (on average) due to work schedule
— 31 percent feel burned out more than half the time due to work
Respondents said the leading cause of fatigue or burnout was patient overload, cited by 49 percent of those polled. Over one third of respondents noted that more than 40 percent of patient visits are not fully reimbursed.