STAT March 3, 2023
The American College of Surgeons recently announced its new well-being initiative for surgeons. This wellness program has lofty goals:
[The ACS] recognizes the need to foster well-being, resilience, and work-life integration for all surgeons, regardless of their career stage. Fostering the growth of both the surgical expertise and the person as a whole is paramount.
On the face of it, this sounds awesome — resilience, well-being, work-life integration, and fostering growth of the person as a whole — coming at a time when surgeons and other physicians are burning out and leaving their work in droves, and when the suicide rate among physicians is twice that of the national population.
But wellness programs don’t work — at least, not in...
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