Creating Space for Doctors to Be Doctors: A Cumulative Impact Lens on Physician Demands

Doctors of BC Position: Physicians are faced with a growing number of demands that can lead to unmanageable time constraints, and expectations to deliver beyond what can be reasonably expected in a single day. Many of these demands, such as paperwork, charting, and EMR management, do not allow physicians time to provide the best possible patient care, and can negatively affect physician wellbeing. Doctors of BC calls on all health care stakeholders to carefully consider how any new ask or proposed change may affect the wider health care system’s accessibility and quality. Health care stakeholders are encouraged to use the Burdens Solutions Tool, a new framework for assessing new, existing, and potential demands on physician time.