Items Tagged ‘doctor burn-out’
November 24, 2009
Study suggests medical errors due to doctor burn-out
A new study by the Mayo Clinic suggests major medical errors reported by American surgeons are the result of burn-out and depression. Nearly 8,000 surgeons participated in the confidential survey. About 9 percent say they made a major medical error in the three months before the survey. Nearly 70 percent of those surgeons […]
Tags: doctor burn-out, medical errors