As a performance expert and the mind behind Evidence-Based Leadership, Quint Studer has spent years advising hospital leadership on how to lead through change. Only in recent years did he fully realize how poorly physicians are faring — and it was then that he started thinking about what was to become his newest book, Healing Physician Burnout.
"Major shifts in the external environment have changed the game for everyone in healthcare," he says. "But I think nobody has gone through more change than physicians."
Mr. Studer says physician engagement and alignment is not a new priority in healthcare. He remembers reading a book about it in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In the past, though, results were inconsistent. Now, with many health systems being more fully integrated, with more physician employment, with accountable care organizations, with population health, with shared risk formulas, everyone is on the same page — or soon will be. Motivation to heal burnout is at an all-time high.
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