%0 Journal Article %T Burnout should not be a silent epidemic %J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery". %D 2019 %R 10.1503/cjs.000819 %X Physician burnout is the new catch phrase. Recognized as a problem for years, burnout has now become more relevant. It is the sheer volume of cases that has beccome a threat to the medical profession. Annually, about 400 physicians take their own lives in the United States. We do not have hard numbers for Canada %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6351260/