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Those experiencing signs of burnout such as emotional exhaustion, feeling detached from colleagues and patients and lower job satisfaction were more likely to overprescribe medications.

General practitioner burnout has been linked to overprescribing opioids and antibiotics, a new study suggests.

Burnout in GPs has been linked to higher antibiotic and strong opioid prescribing, especially in the more deprived areas of the North of England

Burnout in physicians is associated with a decrease in job satisfaction and with increased patient safety events and patient dissatisfaction.

Burnout in physicians is associated with a decrease in job satisfaction and with increased patient safety events and patient dissatisfaction.

Burnout in physicians is associated with a decrease in job satisfaction and increases in patient safety events and patient dissatisfaction.

'It's really important to consider both factors in tandem,' says lead author of meta-analysis

STATINS are among our most-prescribed medicines, with the cholesterol-lowering drugs being taken to prevent cardiovascular deaths for the past 35 years.

Rosuvastatin, simvastatin, and atorvastatin were most effective in reducing levels of non-high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol in people with diabetes in a network meta-analysis of 42 clinical trials.

Supporters call them the best-studied drugs ever. Yet arguments still rage over whether they are even worth taking - or if patients are getting the right ones.