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and resistance to treating it can impair these doctors’ abilities to access
care.
Future research can probe the effectiveness of the techniques men-
tioned above as antidotes to burnout, examining their impact on pa-
tients’ clinical outcomes as well. The profession needs to explore whether
and how physicians can reduce workloads, how such changes can be
maintained over time, and whether such efforts indeed reduce burnout,
and if so, how much.
These doctors suggested other