Portrait of a general practitioner from the perspective of a geriatrician

Purpose of the work: to assess the socio-psychological state and socio-medical status of a practicing physician. Health is affected by a huge number of factors, including professional ones. And this is a special area that requires a deep study of unfavorable factors of industrial activity and the development of methods for their correction. The morbidity of medical workers compared to other workers in the budgetary sectors is very high. About 30 times higher than that of teachers and 33 times higher than in the trade sector. It would seem that people armed with the most modern knowledge on how to maintain health should live longer than others, but in reality everything turned out to be exactly the opposite. What is behind this paradox? A study was conducted among 107 doctors of the therapeutic profile (therapists, general practitioners, cardiologists, endocrinologists) undergoing advanced training at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapy of the Institute of Continuing Professional Education of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education South Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. We used a questionnaire method with specialized geriatric questionnaires characterizing the psycho-emotional and socio-medical status of the doctor: the questionnaire "Age is not a hindrance", a cognitive assessment scale, a WHO questionnaire for assessing the quality of life (WHOQOL-BREF), a questionnaire by S.G. Korchagina on social deprivation, a calculator of multimorbidity CIRS-G Score Calculator, an assessment of polypharmacy, and the Hawkins emotional scale. Conclusion. The health of the doctor raises serious concerns. Thus, the socio-psychological state of 100% is characterized by the status of loneliness of varying degrees of severity. Every fifth (21.50%) doctor had a significantly reduced emotional status with a predominance of negative emotions. 9 out of 10 doctors (89.73%) had clinically significant health problems. And every 12 (8.41%) had a suspicion of frailty syndrome.

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