In recent years, as the medical community has grown increasingly alarmed over the problems of burnout, the proposed solutions have focused on increasing the resilience of individual doctors and nurses. We need big, fundamental changes.”ADThe committee’s experts — which included doctors, nurses, health executives and leaders in bioethics, neurology and pharmacy — spent 18 months wading through mountains of research on clinician burnout. They found that between 35 and 54 percent of nurses and doctors experience burnout. Health-care workers are especially prone to burnout, the report found, because of the workload, pressure and chaos that they deal with each day. One study cited by Wednesday’s report, for example found it costs the medical system $4.6 billion a year.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2019 15:38 UTC