Combating Burnout in Physician Practices

Self-care is of critical importance for physician and during the pandemic, self-care took on a whole new level of importance for providers, especially those on the frontlines.

Today, you will hear my conversation with Dr. Wayne Jonas, executive director of Samueli Integrative Health Programs, as we discuss the rise of burnout among physicians and staff both during and just prior to the pandemic, and strategies for reducing burnout in these populations.

So the first thing is to acknowledge that there's a lot of changes going on. And really everybody is experiencing stress. And whether you can meet some criteria of burnout on a test or not, is irrelevant.

There are cognitive issues: difficulty concentrating; or in some cases, over-analysis of a situation that you would normally be able to solve and wouldn't be a problem for you, but now you're thinking it through and you can't make decisions, etc.