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Battling burnout in health care: An update on the Impact Wellbeing Guide

Medical Economics

Where can physicians, other clinicians, and health care administrators get started in improving workplace conditions that contribute to burnout in health care?

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Battling burnout in health care: An introduction

Medical Economics

Enhancing healthcare professionals' well-being aims to improve patient care and healthcare systems. SHOW MORE The chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation discusses the state of health care burnout as of mid-2025.

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Battling burnout in health care: AI as a new helpful assistant for physicians

Medical Economics

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models have tremendous potential to help physicians and other clinicians with all sorts of tasks, including administrative burdens that may contribute to feelings of burnout.

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Battling burnout in health care: Reaching a milestone to reduce stigma

Medical Economics

If work conditions contribute to mental stress for health care workers, why don’t they seek professional help? Because there is stigma — health care workers fear they will be thought of as unfit for practice, and possibly lose their jobs, when licensing and credentialing boards find out they sought help for their mental health.

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Battling burnout in health care: Slight improvements, still many worries

Medical Economics

Physician burnout is improving, inching down slowly, but still not back to a 2019 level that was deemed dangerously high even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Battling burnout in health care: What is the current state of the industry?

Medical Economics

Author(s): Richard Payerchin Fact checked by: Todd Shryock The chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation discusses the state of health care burnout as of mid-2025. Burnout remains a thorny issue among physicians and other health care workers and administrators.

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Battling burnout in health care: Peer to peer help — how does it work in health care?

Medical Economics

Author(s): Richard Payerchin Fact checked by: Todd Shryock The chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation discusses the state of health care burnout as of mid-2025. Health care workers who are struggling may feel isolated, and may turn to colleagues for help.