Nearly 40 percent of the nation's physicians — 39.8 percent — reported experiencing at least one symptom of burnout in Medscape's Physician Lifestyle Report 2013, but the causes of their burnout vary.
Generally, many physicians said burnout was caused by excessive workload and the loss of control over their profession.
The following are the top five causes of physician burnout, as rated by surveyed physicians:
1. Too many bureaucratic tasks
2. Spending too many hours at work
3. Present and future impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
4. Feeling like "just a cog in the wheel"
5. Income not high enough
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