![]() 5 This survey had an unprecedented sample size of 7905 surgeons from all surgical disciplines, age groups, and geographic settings. In 2008, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Physician Health and Competency commissioned the team at Mayo Clinic to conduct a survey of its membership using the same validated survey instruments involving burnout, quality of life (QOL), and career satisfaction. ![]() 1, 2 The MSKCC surgeons also frequently reported a putting personal life “on hold” to cope with stress, consistent with the well-described psychology of delayed gratification reported to be commonly used by physicians to deal with excessive work demands and stress. Also, 30% reported potentially problematic alcohol use, while 13% used sleep medications as a possible means to cope. Although it represents a single-center experience with a relatively small sample size, the results were compelling: ~40% were burned out, 27% had psychiatric levels of distress, and only ~1/3 reported high quality of life across physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual domains. 1, 2 Guest and colleagues surveyed their surgical faculty using the standard Maslach Burnout Inventory and asked for surgeons’ input regarding causes of distress and potential solutions. In this issue of the Annals are two valuable publications from the prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. ![]()
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