As a counterpoint, nearly everyone in my family in medicine still loves it. My parents are surgeons in their sixties who don’t need to work any more. My uncles and aunts are GPs, radiologists, and anesthesiologists. My cousins are GPs, nurses, and anesthesiologists. So that’s a spectrum from 21-65 and almost all of them enjoy their jobs. The things that really bother them are poor administrators etc. They’ll quit jobs over that, but not out of burnout.
I think it’s easy for this to be a fulfilling career if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t get early filtered out.
Interesting. I've heard not great things about physician job satisfaction in the last few years, mostly centering around more time spent with billing/paperwork and less with patients.
They’re not all in the US. Spread over the US, Canada, UK, and the UAE. But anecdotally there are more complaints from North American family about paperwork. Obviously I see NA family more, living here now, so that’s not really a surprise.
All of those roles are rather low stress (aside from RN which can vary wildly depending on your dept/floor). The high churn/burnout roles are in critical type care from my experience being married to a nurse. Many docs go without sleep. Either they are on call in the middle of the night and on weekends or they are on 48 hour shifts. Its crazy they are allowed to do that let alone it being the norm.
Past the edit window, but I didn't notice that autocorrect changed "pay" to "party" (which works just well enough in that sentence to be confusing, I'm sure)
I think it’s easy for this to be a fulfilling career if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t get early filtered out.