Healthcare Burnout: The US Surgeon General Needs to Know
Healthcare burnout targeted by the US Surgeon General! I was very excited to read this report of a recent interview with the Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, in which he said that healthcare provider burnout is a priority this year. He situates reducing health care burnout as a part of his 2016 overall priority on emotional well-being: "The suicide and burnout rate is very high, and this is concerning to me because we're at a point in our country where we need more physicians, not fewer; we need more people entering our profession, not fewer," he said. "If we have people burning out, it really goes against our needs." I agree! But, I wonder, is this lip service or a real initiative? Certainly it takes some time to build government programs. Since our excited Google search for “Surgeon General and burnout” did not yet return any other information on this new [...]