​The burnout rate among doctors is somewhere around 33%, high and very high, and a doctor who suffers from burnout lacks empathy and is prone to abuse, says the president of the College of Physicians, Daniel Coriu.

On Thursday, Prima News Daniel Coria was asked if there are elements in the medical system that can lead to medical error: “First we have to define negligence. Negligence is harm caused to a patient due to a physician’s error. So the doctor made a mistake that caused suffering or harm to the patient. This is negligence. First of all, it is a poor medical infrastructure. With the exception of a few university districts, where there is sufficient medical infrastructure, the rest of the country is controversial. The second issue is the degree of exhaustion, burnout. We recently conducted a sociological survey, which we are in the process of statistical analysis, but preliminary data show us that the degree of burnout among medical personnel, among doctors is somewhere around 33 percent at a high and very high level. And a doctor with burnout syndrome is a doctor without empathy, and, of course, prone to carelessness, prone to making mistakes. So we have a context that also overlaps the post-pandemic situation, everything that’s happening now, the social guilt that we’re exposed to, and this extremely high risk of generalization, in which a doctor’s error is generalized and the whole of medical life is blamed, labeled, doctors are criminals,” said the president of the College of Doctors, quoted by News.ro.

In the United States, negligence is the third leading cause of death after cancer and vascular accidents, says Daniel Coriu: “There are 420,000 medical errors and 92,000 deaths in the United States each year. Negligence is the third cause of death after cancer and after thrombosis, after vascular disasters. And if we look at the criminal system, 16 people have been brought to criminal responsibility in 15 years. And we are talking about 620 doctors in the USA. Only 15 people have been criminally convicted. I want to emphasize that everything is solved there in a civilized way, abuse is solved in a civilized way.”

The president of the Medical College also announced that he wanted the future negligence law to deal with a settlement agreement between a doctor who admitted negligence and a patient: “We want a settlement agreement with the consent of the RCA. . If there’s an act of negligence, the doctor admits it’s negligence, then he issues the patient a policy, the patient goes to the insurance company, the insurer calls a medical claims adjuster who determines it was negligence, and then a deal is made between the insurer and the patient.”