Emergency physician burnout and attrition

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Aug 10, 202636:41Science & Medicine

Emergency departments across Canada are seeing record patient volumes, bed shortages and overcrowding. A new longitudinal study in CMAJ, "Emergency physician burnout and attrition in Canada: a longitudinal study," finds...

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