Over the past few months, I’ve written enough posts on Medical Burnout that I have created a new category to house them. Readers will find there posts detailing the causes and consequences of burnout in the medical profession. The profession has been long on the causes but short on solutions. What must be done to loosen the burnout shackles from medical professionals? It will be a huge undertaking for caregivers and society at large to turn this ocean liner around. And it will take time. The first step must be to obtain a commitment to the overall mission from as many constituents as possible. Support will be needed from medical professionals, hospital leadership and administrators, physician employers, insurance companies and the public. As with many reform efforts, many of the players must be willing to sacrifice some of their own interests in order to server the greater good – a worthy and rare event. Without adequate buy-in from stakeholders, the effort will never ge
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