Physicians and researchers from across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. are in Halifax this week for the International Conference on Physician Health.
The three-day scientific conference begins Thursday at the Halifax Convention Centre and will focus on mitigating burnout and promoting wellbeing for doctors.
Dr. Joss Reimer, the president of the Canadian Medical Association, says physician burnout is “absolutely getting worse” over time.
“What we’re hearing from physicians is that the system had many cracks, even before COVID, and people were struggling to be able to make it through and take care of the patients and do everything that Canadians deserve when it comes to receiving health care,” she said during an interview on CTV Morning Live Atlantic.
“But with COVID and with those cracks not being addressed we now have gaping wounds in our health system and that is something that physicians are feeling because we went into health care wanting to help people and when we can’t do what …