RT Book, Section
A1 Childers, Julie W.
A1 Arnold, Robert M.
A1 Carey, Elise C.
A2 Schwartz, Rachel
A2 Hall, Judith A.
A2 Osterberg, Lars G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182527424
T1 Striving and Thriving: Challenges and Opportunities for Clinician Emotional Wellness
T2 Emotion in the Clinical Encounter
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260464320
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182527424
RD 2024/04/19
AB As  clinicians,  our  work  is  focused  on  achieving  patients’  health.  A  chapter  on  clinician  wellness  may  feel  extraneous,  narcissistic  even.  Why  is  maintaining  our  well-being  important?  First,  there  is  evidence  that  clinician  well-being  affects  patient  care.1  Physicians  and  other  healthcare  professionals  who  are  experiencing  burnout  are  more  likely  to  report  making  medical  errors,2  and  less  likely  to  be  perceived  as  compassionate  and  caring  by  patients  and  families.3  Second,  clinicians  who  are  burned  out  are  more  likely  to  leave  the  practice  of  medicine  or  reduce  the  hours  that  they  devote  to  medicine;  similar  results  have  been  found  for  nurses.4,5  This  loss  of  clinicians  is  costly  for  society.  For  physicians  alone,  in  the  United  States  we  spend  $15  billion  per  year  to  train  residents  to  become  practicing  physicians.6  Finally,  as  community  leaders  promoting  well-being  it  feels  hypocritical  to  urge  our  patients  to  make  difficult  changes  to  promote  their  well-being,  if  we  are  unwilling  to  make  the  same  changes.