Burnout and depression in physicians often have their roots in medical school when students begin to take on debt and financial stress.
“A big contributor is the financial burden that many medical students take on, which gets compounded as they move into poorly paid residencies,” wrote Giffin Daughtridge, a fourth-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Neha Vapiwala, M.D., a specialist in radiation oncology and an advisory dean at the medical school, in STAT.
