primary organizational response to burnout<\/a>, they simply miss the mark, she said.<\/p>\n\u201cYou can teach a physician stress management techniques all day, but if they return to an environment that is completely dysfunctional with inefficient workflows, not enough staff, and a significant mismatch between job demands and resources, you\u2019ve not really addressed the underlying cause,\u201d Dr. Farley explained.<\/p>\n
She contends that there is a subtle cost as well. These approaches \u201ccan inadvertently send the message that burnout is something that you should manage on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Change Looks Like<\/p>\n
The answer, according to Dr. Farley, isn\u2019t to abandon individual support but to put it in its proper place.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe most effective approach is to address the organizational conditions that drive burnout while of course also making individual support resources available to those who need or want them,\u201d she said. \u201cSo that organizational change truly has to be the foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She noted that some health systems are implementing AI-assisted documentation and inbox management tools, while others are redesigning workflows to spread work more evenly and efficiently across the care team.<\/p>\n
She also supports \u201cGetting Rid of Stupid Stuff\u201d initiatives, which ask physicians and care teams to flag redundant documentation, excessive EHR clicks, and outdated administrative processes, then eliminate them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I love about this approach is that it not only reduces frustration, but it also demonstrates to physicians and care teams that leadership is listening and willing to act on their feedback,\u201d Dr. Farley said.<\/p>\n
She pointed to peer support as another approach. Instead of expecting physicians to process adverse events and other emotionally difficult experiences on their own, organizations are training clinicians to provide confidential peer-to-peer support to colleagues after these events.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than asking physicians to become more resilient to withstand difficult working environments, we\u2019re increasingly asking how we can improve those environments,\u201d Dr. Farley said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Physician burnout has declined for 3 consecutive years since it\u2019s COVID-era peak, falling to 41.9% in 2025. Still,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[163,85,46],"class_list":["post-661621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}