Burnout, resilience and moral injury: How the wicked problems of health care defy solutions, yet require innovative strategies in the modern era
Author(s) -
Duncan Rozario
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.002819
Subject(s) - burnout , medicine , health care , sustainability , resilience (materials science) , psychological resilience , moral injury , moral responsibility , nursing , wicked problem , institution , social psychology , management , law , psychology , clinical psychology , ecology , physics , political science , economics , biology , thermodynamics
Physician burnout is an increasingly concerning issue that affects patient care, costs and the sustainability of our health care system. Burnout is not solely related to personal resilience; it is important to recognize the major role of the institution of health care in creating this wicked problem. Only this way can we fully understand the shared responsibility required to develop local strategies to tilt the fulcrum in our favour.
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