Wheel's survey also confirmed previous rumors that many professionals had considered quitting their jobs. More than one-quarter of those polled claimed they personally know a doctor or nurse who would change occupations on their own.
FREMONT, CA: Wheel, the health tech company changing the way healthcare works, has introduced a study revealing how clinician burnout has impacted the patient experience. 80 percent of the 2,000 respondents said their doctor or nurse appeared stressed and harried during a healthcare visit in the previous year.
The study also looked at how the pandemic's toll and trauma affected the public's perception of working in healthcare. According to Wheel's poll, one-third of individuals do not believe medical education is worthwhile. After witnessing physicians risk their lives on the front lines of the epidemic, nearly 40 percent of respondents said they would not want their children to become doctors or nurses.
Wheel's survey also confirmed previous rumors that many professionals had considered quitting their jobs. More than one-quarter of those polled claimed they personally know a doctor or nurse who would change occupations on their own.
Patients Blame Themselves for Clinician Burnout
There were frequent accounts in the early days of the pandemic of individuals standing on their balconies and banging pots and pans to support frontline healthcare personnel. As the enthusiasm and hero-worship have diminished, the Wheel study discovered that the majority of respondents acknowledge that their own behavior may be contributing to increased stress levels.
Two-thirds of respondents believed that the general public's unwillingness to take basic precautions such as wearing masks could be contributing to physician fatigue. Meanwhile, three out of every five respondents think that medics aren't being honored or hailed as "heroes" as they were at the start of the pandemic.
