By Dr. Jim Dahle, WCI Founder

I spent nearly a week on the road at the end of September 2024, first speaking a couple of times at the Bogleheads Conference and then speaking three times at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly. This was actually most of the work I did in September, given that I spent most of that time healing from my fall at Grand Teton.

However, there were several things at the conference that caused me to think about burnout. One was a slide from one of my own presentations.

I made this slide using a chart from the latest Medscape Burnout and Depression Report. It shows that burnout in emergency medicine (EM) has not gone away 20+ years after I started. Back then, we attributed it to the fact that so many ED physicians were not residency-trained emergency physicians. I don’t think we

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