Will 2025 Be the Year of Patient Burnout?
MedCity News January 6, 2025
As we look toward the new year, a key step is bringing together stakeholders to better understand how burnout can affect a person’s ability to engage in self-care and collaborative care — and how to develop proactive, person-centered solutions that get to the root causes of distress before they lead to detrimental disengagement.
The chronic disease crisis is coming to its tipping point. New research finds that nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults are now classified as overweight or obese; more than 1.3 billion people worldwide are expected to have type 2 diabetes by 2050; and already, more than half of U.S. men experience hypertension.
The stats are overwhelmingly hard to fathom in aggregate — and equally difficult for individuals to...