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Like any profession that deals in life and death, healthcare has a stress and burnout problem — to which telehealth could be the answer. Physicians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, losing 300 to 400 of their colleagues a year and their struggles with stress and depression have an adverse effect on the healthcare industry’s economic health — a 2019 study posted in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that burnout adds roughly $4.6 billion in costs each year.
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