Dhaval Desai, MD, was teaching his 4-year-old to ride a bike after another exhausting shift at the hospital during the summer after the first COVID-19 surge. He was putting on a happy face and forcing ...

“Am I the only one that thought COVID-19 would be over by now?” “When will COVID-19 be over?” “Will life ever go back to how it was before the pandemic?” If you are asking these sorts of questions, ...

A comprehensive survey study published in JAMA Network Open reveals healthcare worker burnout has begun to decrease following the COVID-19 pandemic but remains higher than prepandemic levels. The ...

Doctors and nurses seldom learn in school how to tell a family that their loved one is not going to survive. Yet healthcare professionals face the immense burden of tragedy, illness, and dying in an ...

The CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on Tuesday launched the Impact Wellbeing campaign, a campaign to provide resources to hospital leaders to ease burnout, ...

Glassdoor, the job board and company review website, found that “burnout” mentions increased 32% year over year as of Q1 2025. Mentions are 50% higher than Q4 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic began) ...

In a pandemic that relies heavily on the expertise and passion of our healthcare workers, we have seen many doctors and nurses working longer hours and even risking their own health to care for those ...

COVID-19-related stressors have exacerbated pharmacy workforce issues and intensified burnout among pharmacists, the American Pharmacists Association said Dec. 17. The association outlined several ...

This question comes to me from a reader. It is published with permission and has been edited for grammar and flow: Hi Mariana, I read your article on burnout: Although I feel burned out, I don’t know ...

The Vulnerables. By Sigrid Nunez. Riverhead Books; 256 pages; $29.99. To be published in Britain by Virago in January; £16.99 When the world entered lockdowns for covid in 2020, writers and critics, ...