We’re Taking Care of You, Who is Taking Care of Us? A Discussion with Dr. Anoushka Afonso

The Hurt By The Female Pain Docs by Dr. Meera Kirpekar and Dr. Alopi Patel

Episode notes

In this episode, The Female Pain docs discuss physician burnout with special guest, Dr. Anoushka Afonso, board certified anesthesiologist and internal medicine physician. They discuss rates of physician burnout particularly amongst anesthesiologists, risk factors for burnout, as well as outcomes related to physician burnout. They further discuss how this impacts the individual physician, patient care, and the field of medicine as a whole.

Keywords
pain doctoranesthesiologyfemale physicianswomen in medicinedoctoranesthesiologistburnout