London hospitals want to tackle physician burnout, but others say systemic change is needed - Ontario Health Coalition

London hospitals want to tackle physician burnout, but others say systemic change is needed - Ontario Health Coalition

(July 30, 2026) By: Jack Sutton, CBC News A new report shows ER physicians are leaving the field or reducing hours to deal with stress A new report is revealing high levels of burnout affecting emergency rooms, with one in 10 emergency physicians leaving the field, and many more reducing their hours. The findings, part of a study out Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, are not surprising to Peter Bergmanis, co-chair of the Ontari…

Emergency physician burnout: 1 in 10 ED physicians leaving specialty

Burnout is pushing emergency physicians to leave the specialty, or to reduce clinical hours, adding to the body of research pointing to a crisis in health care in Canada, according to a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “The prevailing theme was that the health care system is broken,” writes Dr. Kerstin de Wit, emergency physician and thrombosis physician at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and a professor, Queen…