Throughout any time during the year, one in four physicians experience work burnout, this affects not only their overall health but the quality of care towards their patients.  Work burnout is a syndrome caused by chronic work-related stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. 

Healthcare workers, especially physicians, nurses, and other types of clinicians are at risk of burnout, which may cause severe damage to their personal lives, such as substance abuse, broken relationships, and even suicide. Their professional careers could also suffer, impaired patient care, medical errors, and wrong written prescriptions, resulting in malpractice suits and unnecessary substantial medical costs for the hospitals.

Therefore, it's highly recommended that this ongoing issue be addressed with prompt recognition, along with developing coping mechanisms and organizational strategies to deal with and combat this crucial problem growing within the entire healthcare industry.

Physicians, nurses, and physician assistants are not the only healthcare professionals experiencing burnout, this ongoing issue trickles down to other healthcare professionals, such as medical billers, coders, secretaries, customer service representatives, and other hospital staff members, causing unhealthy working conditions, low work performances and destroys morale amongst the departments and it's co-workers.  This non-addressed issue is slowly destroying the fabric of the healthcare industry and causing healthcare professionals to choose other career paths and seek more satisfying jobs for their future careers.

Healthcare experts suggest that hospital administrations and union representatives need to develop a positive solution to this growing problem, such as mental days off with pay, an onsite therapist during working hours, and written procedures on how to deal with stress posted within the office.

Otherwise, work burnout within the healthcare industry could worsen and cause a drastic shortage of employees within every hospital nationwide, causing the healthcare industry to reorganize their daily operations, improve staffing, reorganize their administrations, improve the working conditions, increase the pay, which will boost morale and revitalize the entire healthcare industry, making it stronger and more than ready to combat another deadly pandemic.