Clinician Burnout and Professional Well-being

Abstract

To the Editor Our experiences from clinical practice improvement projects suggest very different approaches to resolving physician burnout from those advanced by Dr Carayon and colleagues.¹ Their stated purpose to “…encourage health care leaders to prioritize the actions, procedures, and policies that deliver the greatest value to direct patient care…” implies that clinicians should continue trusting their future well-being to those who have been responsible for the “industrialization of health care delivery.”¹ Furthermore, the authors’ proposals do not reflect our understanding of the root causes of physician burnout, and they would appear to only increase clinicians’ administrative burdens and costly health system bureaucracies.