Physician Burnout and Self-perception of Medical Errors

Another study was just published examining the relationship between surgeon burnout and self-perceived medical errors. As expected, they found a strong correlation between the two. It is pretty well-known that when a physician is burned out, his/her own perception of quality of work goes down.In other words, finding a relationship between burnout and self-perception of medical errors is an issue of physician’s perception and not that actually medical errors occurred. To be confident, we need to objectively measure medical errors.