Medicine is a profession in which emotional well-being is sorely lacking, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, told MedPage Today in an exclusive interview here at the annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists.
"The suicide and burnout rate is very high, and this is concerning to me because we're at a point in our country where we need more physicians, not fewer; we need more people entering our profession, not fewer," he said. "If we have people burning out, it really goes against our needs."
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