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. 2020 Jan;50(1):73-81.
doi: 10.1177/0020731419883525. Epub 2019 Nov 1.

Physicians' Burnout (and That of Psychologists, Nurses, Magistrates, Researchers, and Professors) For a Control Program

Jean-Pierre Unger  1
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Physicians' Burnout (and That of Psychologists, Nurses, Magistrates, Researchers, and Professors) For a Control Program

Jean-Pierre Unger. Int J Health Serv. 2020 Jan.

Abstract

Just as with burnout in other social sectors, burnout among physicians is acquiring epidemic proportions. After describing the pathology, this article covers the multidisciplinary aspects of its clinical management. As for prevention, the article describes the importance of the socially motivated, professionally oriented management of health care services, courts, universities, and schools for preventing burnout and contrasts such features with the characteristics of their industrial and commercial management.

Keywords: burnout syndrome; clinical management; epidemiology; mobbing; prevention.

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