I recently made yet another trip to Washington to make the case for meaningful healthcare reform. While Congress continues to play partisan politics, patients and doctors continue to suffer.

According to the Mayo Clinic, physician burnout is at an all-time high with nearly 50 percent of all physicians reporting experiencing the symptoms of burnout in the past three years. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 2015 that 30 percent of young physicians had symptoms of depression or suicidal ideations. In fact, suicide accounts for 26 percent of deaths in physicians ages 25-39, compared to 11 percent of deaths in individuals of the same age in the general public.