The Commonwealth Fund | Responding to Burnout and Moral Injury Among Clinicians

Published on September 21, 2023

In this issue of Transforming Care, we explore the manifold causes of burnout and moral injury among clinicians and identify ways in which health care leaders have begun to respond. “Burnout, demoralization, and administrative harm are much more than hot topics of the day,” says Joseph Betancourt, M.D., the Commonwealth Fund’s president and a practicing physician. “They are a clear and present danger to the future of health care, and we ignore them at our own peril.”

 

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