Who Cares What the Doctor Feels: The Responsibility of Health Politics for Burnout in the Pandemic

Healthcare

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Harold J. Bursztajn¹  Marianna Arvanitakis²  Jasna Karacic³ 

[1] BIDMC Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA;

[2] Department of Gastroenterology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium;

[3] International Council of The Patient Ombudsman, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium;

关键词: health policy and politics;    burnout and suicide in health-care;    moral politics;    health systems;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.3390/healthcare9111550

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Modern health has become a defining facet of contemporary life managed by health policy. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected mental health, resulting in stress and anxiety in doctors’ professional and private life. Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have been facing chronic stress, which was reported to the hospital managers and health-care agencies, but nothing was done in the practice to protect them. Although doctors are trained to stay emotionally restrained, a large number of patients in intensive care, along with the personal concerns for their families, has led to burnout. This article highlights the need for health politics to take responsibility for dealing with burnout in health-care workers with a new approach that should help doctors recognize, understand, and manage work-related stress with additional support in the pandemic.

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