When it comes to work-life balance, clinicians in the past skewed more toward the former.
However, shifting demographics in the medical workforce, increasing capacity for communication and the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered that calculus.
“The expectation and acceptance that physicians should work all day and all week with no time for themselves and their families has definitely changed,” Maryam Lustberg, MD, MPH, director of The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven, as well as chief of breast medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center, told Healio. “There