Perfectionism as a predictor of physician burnout

• Main Authors: Sarah R. Martin (Author), Michelle A. Fortier (Author), Theodore W. Heyming (Author), Kyle Ahn (Author), Whitney Nichols (Author), Charles Golden (Author), Haleh Saadat (Author), Zeev N. Kain (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Burnout is common among physicians and has detrimental effects on patient care and physician health. Recent editorials call attention to perfectionism in medicine; however, no studies to date have examined the effect of perfectionism on burnout in physicians practicing in the Uni...