More than half of physicians display signs of burnout. What are the causes of physician burnout, and what are some solutions that can be implemented at both the individual and system level?
Clinician burnout is far from being eliminated at health care organizations, but leaders, frontline physicians, and nurses are joining forces to get to the roots of the crisis.
There’s a growing recognition that organizations need to redesign the way that clinical care is delivered to address the national physician burnout epidemic. Measuring rates of physician burnout is the first step.
If we recognize and address the limits of brainpower, we can become better caregivers.
What disturbs you gives you purpose.
Think big, but start small: change starts with one patient, one nurse or doctor, and one shift.
Instead of retiring, a physician in his 70s pursued a fellowship in telehealth and found a piece of the future.
Any rational actor in today’s medical industrial complex wonders, at times, whether the labor is sensible and the effort sustainable.
Epic and Cerner are dead, Brent James says — what if we designed the system for physicians?
Studies have found that physicians spend nearly 30 hours per month working on the EHR in their homes — including morning and evening hours over the weekend.
How the CMO of Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization combats burnout at her institution and empowers physicians with leadership skills.
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