Creating a Resilient Workplace: Solving for Organizational Causes of Burnout
The data are clear: there’s an upward trend of burnout in medicine, particularly among physicians, who experience professional burnout at twice the rate of the general population.1 Burnout isn’t just a problem—it’s a crisis. It affects patient safety, teams and organizations—and it’s costly.
When Physicians Need a Hand: Peer Support Program Offers Help Through Difficult Times
Physicians are aware that the practice of medicine carries risk, and that adverse outcomes can and do happen to patients. Physicians just don’t think they’re going to be a part, or cause, of them. Patients have risk factors that can increase the likelihood of complications, and medical procedures have their own inherent risks. Physicians know this. But when something goes wrong for patients, it can be devastating to physicians because they care deeply about their patients.