"I'm a family doc in Eugene, Ore., where we've lost three physicians in 18 months to suicide. I was suicidal once. Assembly-line medicine was killing me. Too many patients and not enough time sets us up for failure."
There are many studies highlighting the harm our broken healthcare system is doing to patients--e.g., hospital errors occurring in one-third of all hospital admissions; medical mistakes contributing to up to 187,135 deaths and 6.1 million injuries; an estimated annual cost of measurable preventable medical errors of $17.1 billion (based on 2008 dollars).
But what about the harm caregivers face?
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