Healthcare is a tough job to work in — whether you are a doctor, nurse or any other professional. We are dealing with matters of life and death, our patients expect (and deserve) the best from us, and we always have a hundred-and-one things to do at the frontlines of medicine.

I remember reading somewhere when I was a teenager that a career in medicine would be a “mentally, physically and emotionally draining job”. All these years later, I can see how true that statement was.

Statistics show soaring rates of job dissatisfaction and burnout among healthcare professionals — it’s actually the barriers that are placed in front of us, while already doing a difficult and demanding job — that are tipping so many clinicians over the edge (I encourage everyone to watch Dr Zubin Damania’s, aka ZDoggMD, viral video calling this ‘moral injury’).

Whether it’s burdensome and clunky electronic medical records, other excessive bureaucracy and regulatory requirements, insurance companies, or a difficult relationship with administration, there are plenty of reasons for job dissatisfaction.