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How burnout is plaguing doctors and harming patients

  • Written by Jay Desai, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
imageExhaustion and burnout among physicians are growing problems. wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com

The presidential symposium at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society of America in early October in Kansas City raised many eyebrows. The first presentation of this symposium focused on burnout rates among neurologists around the...

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