A Survey Study on the Causes of Annual Paid Leave Being Left Untaken by Japanese Physicians from the Perspective of Hospital Managers
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51332#.VGRyumfHRK0 Author(s) Go Igusa Affiliation(s) J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan . ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the issue of annual paid leave that is left untaken by physicians in a difficult working environment from the perspective of hospital managers and clarifies the reasons why physicians cannot (will not) take leave through interviews with these managers and main causes of this through qualitative analysis. The results show that the main causes of annual paid leave being left untaken are “the lack of substitute physicians due to management constraints” and “physician’s ethics and overwork” which are different...