Selected causes and consequences of job burnout among doctors working with people suffering from advanced MS Review article

Abstract

From all medical professions, doctors are the one most prone to job burnout. It is strongly connected to their job characteristics, i.e. being surrounded by people suffering from various diseases and pain. Doctors who work with people with chronic diseases often confront various difficult situations such as inefficient treatment, feeling helplessness with patient’s progressive disease and eventually death of a patient and grief of patient’s family. Aforementioned situations, particularly demand from a doctor to be engaged intellectually, emotionally and physically as well as having stress coping strategies. The less interpersonal skills, stress resistance and blind pursuit of fulfillment one’s ambitions, the higher possibility of accumulated and cumulative dissatisfaction and tiredness cummulation which finally leads to job burnout. Therefore, so many scientists examining job burnout in medical professions points out the necessity to broaden self-awareness among doctors to help them learn about different behaviour patterns which repeated over some time may be the cause of negative changes in work, personal, intellectual and emotional life as well as it may deteriorate relations with a patient.