Survey: Emergency medicine physicians are more miserable

A nationwide survey of more than 300 emergency medicine physicians found that they are more miserable than physicians in general. According to the survey, which was conducted by Geneia, emergency medicine physicians scored a 3.9 out of 5 on the Physician Misery Index. In a survey conducted earlier this year, physicians as a whole scored 3.7 on the index.

The survey also found that two-thirds of emergency medicine physicians have considered a career outside of clinical practice due to burnout; compared to 50% of physicians in the earlier survey (not restricted by specialty).

Source: Geneia