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Squiers JJ, Lobdell KW, Fann JI, et al. Physician Burnout: Are We Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease?. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017;104(4):1117-1122doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009.
Squiers, J. J., Lobdell, K. W., Fann, J. I., & DiMaio, J. M. (2017). Physician Burnout: Are We Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease?. The Annals of thoracic surgery, 104(4), 1117-1122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009
Squiers, John J, et al. "Physician Burnout: Are We Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease?." The Annals of thoracic surgery vol. 104,4 (2017): 1117-1122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009
Squiers JJ, Lobdell KW, Fann JI, DiMaio JM. Physician Burnout: Are We Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease?. Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Oct;104(4):1117-1122. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009. PMID: 28935298.
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Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Oct;104(4):1117-1122. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009.

Physician Burnout: Are We Treating the Symptoms Instead of the Disease?.

The Annals of thoracic surgery

John J Squiers, Kevin W Lobdell, James I Fann, J Michael DiMaio

Affiliations

  1. Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, Texas; Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
  2. Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  3. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  4. Baylor Scott & White Research Institute, The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, Texas; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, Texas. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28935298 DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.08.009

Abstract

Despite increasing recognition of physician burnout, its incidence has only increased in recent years, with nearly half of physicians suffering from symptoms of burnout in the most recent surveys. Unfortunately, most burnout research has focused on its profound prevalence rather than seeking to identify the root cause of the burnout epidemic. Health care organizations throughout the United States are implementing committees and support groups in an attempt to reduce burnout among their physicians, but these efforts are typically focused on increasing resilience and wellness among participants rather than combating problematic changes in how medicine is practiced by physicians in the current era. This report provides a brief review of the current literature on the syndrome of burnout, a summary of several institutional approaches to combating burnout, and a call for a shift in the focus of these efforts toward one proposed root cause of burnout.

Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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