Burnout

Academic physicians suffering from burnout and depression reported significant improvements after participating in an intervention that promoted the practice of transcendental meditation, a recent study found.

Most critical care workers reported being in a violent situation while at work, which led to decreased workplace satisfaction, according to results of a global survey presented at Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress.

Engaging with ICU survivors and seeing treatment successes in post-ICU clinics may reduce health care provider burnout, according to an abstract presented at Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress.

This current issue of Healio Rheumatology features a roundtable on “‘The Art of Medicine’: Physicians’ Artistic Pursuits Strengthen Empathy, Sharpen Skills,” with contributions from Ronan Kavanagh, MD; Iris Y. Navarro-Millan, MD; James Louie, MD; Ronald F. van Vollenhoven, MD, PhD; and myself. The topic is not new — and indeed it is old — but in my mind it is more relevant today than any other time in modern medicine.

On Sept. 15, the AMA released a statement saying that the burnout rate among United States physicians spiked during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, citing research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Resilience and organizational support protected against burnout, while social support and resilience led to better mental health outcomes among health care workers a year after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This time last year, many physicians looked forward to reclaiming a sense of normalcy in their lives and practices. We started 2022 hoping for a return to a pre-pandemic way of practice. Instead, we found a profession permanently changed.

Individual stressors that occur in day-to-day work life are “microtraumas” that eventually aggregate to significantly impact quality of life, according to Ishwaria M. Subbiah, MD, MS.

The COVID-19 pandemic often has been used to explain increasing burnout among health care workers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In this Healio interview, Gretchen Winter, MD, spotlights the impact of burnout among health care professionals, especially pulmonary and critical care physicians and team members.