Health workers feel burnout more frequently than they did before the Covid-19 pandemic, while also struggling with symptoms of anxiety and depression, sleep problems and harassment, according to a federal survey of American workers published on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The results offer a rare glimpse of worker morale before and after the peak of the pandemic. The research compared data from 2018 and 2022 and underscored a dire staffing crisis in the nation’s health work force, which limped through the pandemic amid long hours, high turnover, violence in emergency departments and public vitriol over vaccines, masks and treatments. Hundreds of thousands of medical workers have left their jobs in recent years.
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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/health/doctors-nurses-burnout.html