RT Article
T1 Physician Burnout Calls for Legal Intervention
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 49
IS 6
SP 8
OP 9
A1 Hoffman, Sharona
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1937529010
AB Physician burnout is receiving more attention in the medical literature, and deservedly so. For example, in October of 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a lengthy report called Taking Action against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being. The report is comprehensive and well worth reading, and it offers a series of sound recommendations for addressing the burnout problem. However, the recommendations are quite ambitious, and implementing them would require a considerable investment of time, staffing, and financial resources. The medical community should not be left to grapple with the phenomenon of physician burnout alone. The law has a significant role to play in addressing the problem. As a first step, it is useful to consider a few concrete interventions that regulators could realistically implement in the short term.
DO 10.1002/hast.1062