Patient Burnout [Barriers: Cost of Care, Insurance, Health Care Professional Shortage, Physician Burnout]

This article in Time entitled “Long Waits, Short Appointments, Huge Bills: U.S. Health Care Is Causing Patient Burnout” discusses the overwhelmed feeling patients experience when dealing with the US Health Care System. I hadn’t heard the term “patient burnout,” but it is a good way to describe the situation many patients find themselves in.