The solution to the physician burnout crisis isn’t more diagnoses or interventions. The antidote isn’t more modules, surveys, screenings, or questionnaires. What’s needed is cultural healing: One that we have so far been unwilling and/or too depleted to attempt. Over the past decade, physician wellness has been medicalized. We’ve absorbed it into the very system
Medicalizing burnout misses the real problem originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
