• Bias and Burnout: Evil Twins The Medscape 2016 Lifestyle Report surveyed physicians about perceptions of their own burnout and their biases toward patients. Are the two factors linked?
• Physician Burnout: A Personal Story A previously burned out physician shares his story and some lessons for other physicians facing this epidemic problem.
• Physician Burnout Climbs 10% in 3 Years, Hits 55% Systemic, rather than self-help, interventions are needed to avoid a negative effect on US healthcare.
• Why Internists Are Number One in Physician Burnout Internists, a physician asserts, are among the most idealistic of doctors, and when their deep level of caring collides with medical bureaucracy, cynicism, apathy, and disappointment the result.
• Do Physicians' Implicit Views of African Americans Affect Clinical Decision Making? Using total knee replacement as a test case, this study examined whether physicians were racially biased in their decision-making.
• Care for Obese Women Should Be Nonjudgmental, ACOG Says Physicians are urged to act as advocates and to examine their own biases when caring for obese women.
• Psych Residents Biased Against Mentally Ill Patients With SUDs Psychiatry residents tend to be biased against patients with serious mental illness who also have substance use disorders, and their attitudes worsen over time.

• Total respondents*: 15,800 US physicians across 25 specialty areas
• Fieldwork conducted by Medscape from September to December 2015
• Data collected via third-party online survey collection site

Our 2016 Physician Lifestyle Report provides a revealing look at how burnout and bias affect lifestyle and practice. This comprehensive report represents responses from over 15,000 US physicians and reveals details on happiness at home and work, weight and exercise, causes of burnout – and how male and female physicians from 25 different specialties fare on all of these factors.

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