006 - Physician Burnout: The Impact

What harm is done when administrators are no more than bemused spectators in the arena of physician burnout? What harm is done when wellness researchers simply monitor the relentlessly high burnout rates, year after year? Devastating harm is experienced by medical students, physicians, their families and friends, and their patients. Our healthcare system financial woes and physician burnout have common parents: leaders with a “profits over patients” mindset. In Licensed to Lead podcast episode #6 I bring the data as well as the voices of a medical student, and a physician-turned-entrepreneur.