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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

What factors contributed most to clinician burnout in this year’s survey? At the top of the list of stressors was the same issue hurting physician well-being last year: too many bureaucratic tasks, felt by 58% of the surveyed doctors. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. Four in ten U.S.

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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

Health Populi

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net). I wrote my first post on Health Populi nearly eleven years ago Labor Day week 2007.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In this first week of January 2022 with CES kicking off its show of digital health innovations, along with other consumer categories of electronics at home and in connected cars ( which I covered here in Health Populi back in 2007 before I began to attend CES!),

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Everybody is Stressed in America, and It’s Not Good for Our Health: the 2023 Update from the American Psychological Association

Health Populi

is “a nation recovering from collective trauma,” the according to the latest survey on Stress in America 2023 from the American Psychological Association (APA). As in 2008, in 2023 even more women than men feel that financial stress — and more generally, parents. adults 18 and over in August 2023.