Observational study reveals strong links between burnout, reduced mental quality of life, and medical errors in surgeons, highlighting the critical need for distress-reduction interventions.
Major medical errors reported by surgeons are strongly related to a surgeon's degree of burnout and their mental QOL. Studies are needed to determine how to reduce surgeon distress and how to support surgeons when medical errors occur.
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