Survey: State of physician wellbeing remains low two years into COVID-19 pandemic

MedPage Today (9/19, Firth) reports “the state of physician wellbeing remained low 2 years into the pandemic,” according to survey results, revealing that “one in three physicians reported feeling hopeless or that they had no purpose.” The results showed that “for the second year in a row, 60% of 1,509 physicians who completed the online survey said they often feel burned out, compared with 40% before the pandemic.” These results are from “the second part of the 2022 Survey of America’s Physicians from the nonprofit Physicians Foundation” conducted “from June 24 to July 3, 2022.”