Articles and Insights for Managing Burnout

Understanding Burnout and Associated Symptoms

• Doctors Have their Own Diagnosis: ‘Moral Distress’ from an Inhumane Health System, by Lisa Doggett, Public Health Watch

• A Doctor’s Grief, by Humeira Badsha, MD

• A Doctor’s Journey: A Blog About Resilience, Wellness, Coaching and Self-Improvement

• Clinician Well-Being is Essential for Safe, High-Quality Patient Care, by the National Academy of Medicine

• New Surgeon General Advisory Sounds Alarm on Health Worker Burnout and Resignation, by the Office of the Surgeon General

• Why Health-care Workers are Quitting in Droves, by Ed Yong

  About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.

• After a Physician Dies by Suicide, by Ryan DuBosar

  Doctors are paying more attention to the issue of suicide within their profession. The full scope of the problem is unknown, but increased awareness and access to resources can encourage physicians to reach out for help.

• The Well-Being Index

• Beckers Hospital: Stop calling everything 'burnout', by Molly Gamble (Twitter) 

  Healthcare needs an expanded vocabulary for what clinicians experience.

• Defining Physician Burnout, and Differentiating Between Burnout and Depression

• The 5 Main Causes of Burnout in Healthcare, by Maria Clark

Maintaining and Sustaining Wellness

• Pace University College of Health Professions: Mindfulness

• Greater Good Magazine, science-based insights for a meaningful life

• Ten Commandment of Physician Wellness
  Published by: Edward J. Krall, MED

• The Happy MD

Industry and Workforce Analysis

• The Harvard Business Review: The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care, by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee

  The transformation to value-based health care is well under way. Some organizations, such as the Cleveland Clinic and Germany’s Schön Klinik, have undertaken large-scale changes involving multiple components of the value agenda. The result has been striking improvements in outcomes and efficiency, and growth in market share

• Why Healthcare Workers are Quitting in Droves - As seen in the Atlantic by Ed Yong

  About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.

• NV Physician Workforce Study by University of Nevada, Statewide Initiative.

  In June 2018, a study of medical personnel in NV was published by the UNR-Medicine Statewide initiatives office, describing the current condition of the “physician workforce”.

Research & White Papers

• A Crisis in Health Care: A Call to Action on Physician Burnout, Massachusetts Medical Society

• Empathy in the Time of Burnout, by Edward R. Melnick, MD, MHS and Seth M. Powsner, MD

• Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being by John H. Noseworthy, MD, CEO and Tait D. Shanafelt, MD

• How Organizations CanImpact the Emotional Aftermath of COVID, by Guarava Agarwal, MD

• How Pandemic Lessons Can Help Leadership Improve Clinician Well Being and Organizational Efficiencies, by Guarava Agarwal, MD