1 in 10 emergency physicians leaving Canadian ERs, national survey suggests
A national survey reveals that 10% of Canadian emergency physicians have left the specialty, while many others are reducing hours due to severe burnout. The study highlights systemic issues in the healthcare sector, noting that the crisis is not merely a pandemic-related phenomenon.
The Vancouver-based physician has given patients she just met a cancer diagnosis, with little privacy in the middle of a noisy room. She's cared for a man with an intracranial brain bleed on an ambulance stretcher in a hallway. And she can't shake the memory of one patient who had septic shock after spending eight hours in a waiting room, dangerously close to death.
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