This Article Corrects: “Assessment of Physician Well-being, Part Two: Beyond Burnout”

Review Article: Physician Burnout in Urology

Introduction: Physician burnout is highly prevalent and impacts the quality of health care in the United States. Methods: The existing literature on physician burnout was reviewed with a focus on burnout among surgeons. Results: Although burnout has not been specifically studied in urologists, many other groups of surgeons have been assessed for burnout. Women and physicians experiencing work/h...

Can Shared Decision Making Improve Physician Well-Being and Reduce Burnout?

There are many causes of physician burnout in today's health care environment, including an ever increasing administrative workload, pressure to do more work in less time, and a drive to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes. Importantly, lack of meaning in work is a crucial documented driver of physician burnout. Clinical encounters perceived as meaningful by physicians could therefore pot...

The well-being of physician relationships.

Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being

These are challenging times for health care executives. The health care field is experiencing unprecedented changes that threaten the survival of many health care organizations. To successfully navigate these challenges, health care executives need committed and productive physicians working in collaboration with organization leaders. Unfortunately, national studies suggest that at least 50% of...

Review Article Meditation and Mental Well Being

The concept of mental well-being refers to op t imal psycholog ica l func t ion ing and experience. Mental heal th has largely been def ined as absence of psych ia t r i c i l lness . Mind influences health and disease was once considered very essent ia l par t of medic ine but in l as t few hundred years mind and medic ine have s lowly dr i f t ed apar t . For much of the last century, psychol...