Two studies take another look at "physician burnout."The Los Angeles Times (1/5, Brown) reports, "You might have heard already that surgeons who miss out on sleep make more mistakes in the operating room. Now the editors of Anesthesiology want you to know about another potential patient-safety pitfall: physician burnout." According to one Vanderbilt-penned paper published in the journal, "physicians, and particularly residents (who usually carry larger workloads), were at higher risk of burnout than nurses and other personnel." Meanwhile, researchers at Northwestern "focused on burnout among senior physicians -- chairs of academic anesthesiology departments" -- finding that "about half of the anesthesiologists they surveyed -- 55 doctors in all -- met their criteria for 'high burnout' or 'moderately-high burnout.'"
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