In a previous article, I described the brain-damaging effects of allowing work-life balance to fall into disequilibrium. For example, scientists from the Karolinska Institute, in Sweden, reported that burnout may weaken the connectivity between far-flung regions of the brain and may even result in brain atrophy. A burnout crisis in medicine has been simmering for
A neurosurgeon’s proposal to reduce burnout in medicine and beyond originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
