Opinion: Will there be any emergency doctors to see you in the future?
The decline in students’ interest in emergency medicine does not only affect the workforce — it also affects our patients.
In the emergency room today, everyone is suffering. Many emergency medicine physicians are struggling to provide quality care amid staffing shortages, increased pressure to meet productivity metrics, and frustrated patients battling prolonged wait times. Their situation is compounded by a sense that they have been abandoned by hospital leadership, leading to increasing levels of physician burnout and attrition.
Medical students have picked up on the chaos within the emergency medicine physician community — and it’s making them less interested in entering our specialty.
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