The Physician Burnout Crisis: Why DPC Is The Only Way Forward
"My wife would come back to check on me late at night, asleep at the keyboard, and she would be like, 'Is he dead?' The burnout, what we call moral injury, is more real than anybody knows." - Will Steelman
The American healthcare system is crushing its doctors. Faced with "assembly line" quotas of 25+ patients a day, hours of unpaid administrative work ("pajama time"), and a suicide rate higher than that of veterans, physicians are fleeing the profession in droves.
My guest this week is Dr. Will Steelman, a board-certified internal medicine physician who lived through this crisis firsthand…
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