Health professionals are not spared by uneasiness at work. the burnout syndrome would affect nearly one in two caregivers, a survey pointed out in 2015. Better management of this psychological suffering requires freeing up the voices of the people concerned. With this in mind, a single, free telephone number for physicians, regardless of their mode of practice, should be implemented in 2018. This measure stems from an agreement that has just been signed by the Order of Physicians, the Autonomous Retirement Fund for Physicians (CARMF) and the National Management Center, according to JIM.fr. This number will make it possible to centralize calls from practitioners to better help doctors who are often at a loss in the event of burnout.
The agreement also provides for actions to raise awareness of mental suffering for doctors and the signing of a charter signed with hospitals “so that professionals from all regions can be more easily taken care of if their condition so requires” , specifies JIM.fr.
Different sources of stress
If it is difficult to be expressed, the professional exhaustion of doctors is real, revealed the association Words of professionals in 2013 which argued that the most suffering doctors were “general practitioners aged 45 to 50, single , performing more than 6,000 acts per year “. This pointed to several causes for this malaise: an increasing workload, a deterioration in practitioner-patient relations, more demanding patients, etc. .
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