From my friends anecdotal experience, burnout in medical industry is partly due to too much administrative work. It is also partly because the number of patien

From my friends anecdotal experience, burnout in medical industry is partly due to too much administrative work. It is also partly because the number of patients is increasing disproportionately, mostly because people are getting older. An individual at the age of 50 needed fewer medical appointments than an individual at the age of 70. That's literally from 2002 to today. There just aren't enough nurses and doctors to tend to such a large old population.