Every year, the major medical research organizations publish their physician burnout data. Every year, the conclusion is the same.
According to the Medscape Physician Burnout Report 2025, administrative burden remains the #1 cited cause of physician burnout — ahead of lack of autonomy, challenging patients, and everything else. The AMA's 2025 survey found that 63% of US physicians report burnout symptoms. The JAMA Internal Medicine 2025 data shows physicians spend an average of 15.6 hours per week on documentation — nearly two full working days out of five.
The math physicians are living
A physician seeing 25 patients per day, spending an average of 15 minutes per note, is spending over 6 hours per day on documentation. Most of that time falls outside clinic hours — the "pajama time" that has become normalized but should never have been.
The AMA estimates physicians spend 86 minutes on after-hours EHR work per day on average. That is 7+ hours per week, 30+ hours per month, spent documenting instead of resting, learning, or being present with family.
What the research says about AI scribes
A 2025 randomized controlled trial published in NEJM AI found that AI-assisted documentation produced modest but meaningful reductions in documentation time and improvements in physician wellbeing. A TPMG study of 7,260 physicians found that 47% of patients reported their doctor spent less time on the computer during the visit when AI scribes were in use.
What NexiScribe adds
The challenge with pure AI scribes is that they generate a draft — not a finished note. The physician still reviews, edits, and corrects. NexiScribe's human verification step eliminates most of that review burden, delivering a note that is genuinely ready to sign. For a physician dealing with documentation burnout, the difference between "ready to review" and "ready to sign" is the difference between a solution and a slightly better problem.
Sources: AMA Physician Survey 2025; Medscape Physician Burnout Report 2025; JAMA Internal Medicine 2025; NEJM AI 2025; TPMG Study 2025. NexiScribe is not affiliated with these organizations.
