Physicians and Burnout

Guest: Colin West, PhD, MD, Director of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Physician Well-Being Program  When you go to the doctor, it’s your health that’s on your mind. I’ll bet it doesn’t even cross your mind to wonder how your doctor is doing, health-wise. Maybe it should. Research out of the Mayo Clinic finds an epidemic of professional burnout is afoot among America’s doctors. More than half report signs of career burnout and there’s been a pretty significant jump in that figure over just three years.