Vivek Murthy, MD, turns focus to physician well-being (AMA Wire)

After two and a half years as the U.S. surgeon general addressing matters of vital importance to the public’s health, Vivek Murthy, MD, is calling for greater attention and evidence-based action on another critical issue—physicians’ well-being. In an interview with AMA Wire®, Dr. Murthy described “watching kind, brilliant, idealistic colleagues become cynical and burned out as they realized they couldn’t provide the care their patients needed in a broken system.” Read the full article.

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