Opinion: Addressing health care workers’ trauma can help fight burnout
Burnout is a growing crisis in health care: More than 50% of health care professionals report symptoms of it. Addressing the trauma they face at work can help.
Halting burnout straddles the tension between addressing the individual factors versus the organizational factors behind it. It was once believed that burnout was related to health workers’ inability to cope with the natural stresses of their job. But research has clarified what clinicians have long known: They are inherently resilient. Instead, systemic factors are the primary drivers of burnout.
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