Earlier this year, I made a video about why people were leaving the medical field. This article on Becker's Hospital Review basically reinforced what I was saying. Burnout did not start when the pandemic started; it was already there.
Pre-pandemic healthcare had lowercase burnout and uppercase burnout.
Uppercase burnout is the textbook term coined in 1974 by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, Ph.D., for the stress and exhaustion felt by those in service professions that make it tough to cope. In 2017, CEOs of the nation's most prominent health systems categorized burnout among physicians as a public health crisis and outlined an 11-step response. In 2019, the World Health Organization finally included burnout in its International Classification of Diseases, describing it as "a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed." Uppercase burnout is both a condition and a studied, well-known public health threat, like driving without a seatbelt. Read more here.
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