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Highlights from the U.S. Surgeon General’s warning on health worker burnout

By The DO Staff

11.10.22

For years there has been an increase in health workforce burnout. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the effects of exhaustion and moral distress across the health community. Earlier this year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, addressed health worker burnout and provided solutions in his advisory on building a thriving health workforce titled, “Addressing health worker burnout.”