Physician burnout is not so much an entity or an object, but rather a series of events and the responses to them.
If we recognize what’s happening and take corrective action, burnout can be alleviated or at least mitigaged.
Freeing them from having to subscribe to other people’s expectations so that they can design their dream life and live it each day.
Teaching others to find contentment and avoid lifestyle inflation that shackles so many doctors is an important message.
We must recognize that the significant debt burden and financial jail that doctors encase themselves in is a big part of the problem.
With the ever-increasing debt burden our trainees face, the burnout epidemic will only become a bigger problem – unless WE stop it.