Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System.
Eric Reinhart
New York Times
February 5, 2023
“Doctors have long diagnosed many of our sickest patients with “demoralization syndrome,” a condition commonly associated with terminal illness that’s characterized by a sense of helplessness and loss of purpose. American physicians are now increasingly suffering from a similar condition, except our demoralization is not a reaction to a medical condition, but rather to the diseased systems for which we work.”
You can also listen to an interview with Eric Reinhart, a physician and medical anthropologist at Northwestern University, on a recent episode of Amanpour and Company.