Your Result: Circling the Drain

56% of women physicians self-reported burnout in 2022, so, Sister Doc, you are not alone. You daydream about quitting or going part-time multiple times a week, but you feel stuck because you have no idea how you’ll pay your bills or take care of your family if you do. You’re bringing home charting even though you have the “second shift” of home responsibilities, and at work you can’t keep up with the never-ending requests from patients and administrators.

When you walk into the hospital or office, you’re counting down the minutes until you get to leave. You live for vacation and weekends and dread Sunday nights because you have to go back to work the next day. When you’re at home you’re thinking about work and when you’re at work you’re thinking about all the things you need to do when you get home. You have no idea how you got here because you used to enjoy medicine but now you mostly dread it because you’re just so crispy from burnout.

The bad news is quitting 20 years before retirement age could cost you $5 million in lost income, but the good news is you do not have to quit or go part time to get out of burnout.