AMA January 25, 2022
Sara Berg

As the pandemic continued the summer of 2020, AMA member Nigel Girgrah, MD, PhD, found himself like many people, languishing and struggling. While he recognized the triggers of physician burnout, he was unable to follow his normal coping measures—travel restrictions prevented him from visiting family and friends in Canada, and he was unable to exercise due to a knee injury.

“My ‘aha!’ moment was that everybody has a version of this story. And I have a quarterly chief wellness officer message that is an open letter that goes out to our 34,000 employees,” Dr. Girgrah, a transplant hepatologist and chief wellness officer at Ochsner Health, said during an AMA Insight Network virtual meeting about strategies, insights and tips for...

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