L’auteur d’un commentaire récent sur l’épuisement professionnel des médecins partage dans cette entrevue ses réflexions sur la nature du phénomène et l’attribue en partie à la perturbation, par un système de la santé fragmenté et dysfonctionnel, de la relation réciproque entre médecin et patient.
The lead author of a recent commentary on the elusive nature of burnout raised a few eyebrows with a provocative title, “Physician Burnout—A Serious Symptom, But of What?” In this interview, Thomas L. Schwenk discusses two issues he has recently raised in commentairies. The first is the broad disagreement about definitions of burnout and widespread variation in measuring its prevalence. He also links burnout to the disruption of the reciprocal relationship between physicians and patients by « the current system of fragmented, rushed, dysfunctional, digitized, corporatized and costly medical care. »