Vacations Are Necessary Medicine for Doctors: Study

Over half of physicians surveyed took 15 or fewer days of vacation in the past year, and most reported working while on vacation.
Vacations Are Necessary Medicine for Doctors: Study
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What’s the key to preventing burnout at work? For professionals in the medical field, taking a vacation could be the key.

A new cross-sectional study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that doctor burnout can be prevented or reduced by supporting physician vacation time and reducing patient-care-related tasks during vacation time. In other words, when a doctor is on vacation, they need to be fully on vacation.
A.C. Dahnke
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A.C. Dahnke is a freelance writer and editor residing in California. She has covered community journalism and health care news for nearly a decade, winning a California Newspaper Publishers Award for her work.
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