Oliver Wyman January 9, 2025
Successful strategies for tackling clinician burnout are hard to find and scale. Healthcare leaders need to take a more comprehensive approach.
It might be time for healthcare leaders to think differently about clinician burnout. Although there are pockets of success, broadscale efforts to reduce burnout have not taken hold. Roughly 50% of physicians report feeling burnout, according to the American Medical Association. Part of the problem is that leaders often link burnout with workload and the work environment. But it is far more complex than that, according to Stephen Hippler, MD, and Larry Weinzimmer, Ph.D. The two have been studying burnout for the past several years and found that the research on root causes is incomplete.
One of their key...
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