Stop medicalizing burnout and start healing the culture

Board-certified pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney discusses her article, "Medicalizing burnout misses the real problem." She argues that the health care industry's current approach to physician burnout is failing because it treats a predictable cultural problem like a personal disease. By "medicalizing" wellness with endless surveys, modules, and screenings, institutions are trying to solve the issue using the very system that caused it, which only adds to physicians' burdens. Jessie asserts that physician unwellness is not a pathology but a natural outcome of a culture built on perfectionism and self-erasure. The true solution, she contends, is not another checklist but deep cultural healing. She calls on institutions to offer meaningful support that actually repletes and empowers physicians—such as coaching, connection, time, and space—so they can lead the change medicine so urgently needs.

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