BURNOUT: The Extinction of the American Physician

This book highlights the causes of physician unhappiness, which reveal government regulations that do not improve patient care, disincentives to physician autonomy, innovation, and necessary risk-taking, and the devaluation of their work - which is forcing them out of business and soaring their frustration levels off the charts. The physician scarcity crisis we face nationally is cumulating to a 100,000-doctor shortage in the United States by 2030. From HIPAA to MACRA to Meaningful Use, compliance disasters are creeping into the medical practice, stealing valuable physician time away from patients. BURNOUT: The Extinction of the American Physician, written by leading industry compliance expert, Stephanie Cecchini, provides deep insight into the physician mindset in the ambulatory professional fee environment. The impact of physician unhappiness in this setting is wide-reaching and especially important in healthcare business because healthcare business professionals (healthcare administrators, health information managers, medical coders and billers, investors, and more) are positioned to do something about it. Where others might care about the problem they may not work alongside physicians. Others might care, work alongside them, but are unhelpful because they are equally uneducated in regulatory healthcare compliance, reimbursement, or emerging health IT. Many healthcare business professionals have a gap in their education regarding their roll in mitigating physician burnout. This book provides a quick reference summary of knowledge to impart lasting understanding and emotional intelligence that physicians need. This support can improve physician productivity and care quality ... and might just save them for future generations.