Medicine is a challenging profession. Being a doctor can be lucrative in some income categories, but it’s also hard as hell at every level. It’s expensive, exhausting, draining, high-risk and stressful.

And that’s true of most high-end professions.

That’s why we have (or used to have) a screening system called “merit” to separate those who could hack it from those who can’t. It’s why you have the stories about med school students being told, “Look to the right and look to the left, one of you won’t be here next year.” But now that medicine is being DEIed to death, a whole lot of people are getting in, not on merit, but on identity politics, and they can’t hack it. So they do what they always do which is cry that they’re being discriminated against because they entered a tough line of work.

Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, the president and CEO of Physicians For a Healthy California, said that nearly half—47%—of all women physicians of color said they felt burnout and were concerned about their wellbeing.

Alonzo-Diaz is also the co-author of the study “A Prescription For Change.” Female physicians of color are drowning in work, feeling undervalued and, in many cases, experiencing discrimination and racial bias, she said. Aside from the burnout at work, many juggle responsibilities at home.

Doctors in general are drowning in work, feeling undervalued and experiencing burnout.

In surveys, between 49% to 63% of doctors in general report that they feel burned out.

By contrast, Lupe and CBS News are hyping a survey that claims that 47% of minority female doctors feel burned out. Meaning that they’re actually feeling less burned out than average. (Not that CBS will tell you this. Or anything that contradicts the ‘Narrative’ and the ‘Message’.)

Anyway, how do we solve the crisis of medicine being a tough profession?

“Health care organizations can acknowledge, understand and create policies and practices in their places of employment to support and address the causes of burnout,” Alonzo-Diaz said.

The study suggests other recommendations like allowing anonymous employee feedback and compensating them for their work in equity, diversity and inclusion roles.

Paying doctors to push identity politics sounds like it would help Lupe more than it would help most minority female doctors.