As rates of burnout, emotional exhaustion and depersonalization rise amongst healthcare workers, the National Academy of Medicine recently published a national plan for health workforce well-being. On today’s episode Dr. Larrissa Thomas, a nationally recognized expert in the field of physician well-being and burnout, discusses the root causes of burnout and discusses using Deep Thinking Human-Centered Design to develop systemic solutions to promote wellbeing in medicine.

Articles mentioned in this episode:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2702871

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26744/national-plan-for-health-workforce-well-being

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/health/doctor-burnout-pandemic.html

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(21)00872-7/fulltext

To learn more about Dr. Thomas’s work:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32101932/

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