An endoscopic sector server as a patient burden easing support apparatus executes a step of acquiring preparation completion information indicating that preparation for an endoscopic inspection has been completed, a step of acquiring inspection start information indicating that the endoscopic inspection has been started, a determination step of determining whether predetermined conditions about a time between acquisition of the preparation completion information and acquisition of the inspection start information are satisfied or not, and a warning step of outputting warning information when determination is made that the predetermined conditions are satisfied.