Battling burnout in health care: Slight improvements, still many worries

Physician burnout is improving, inching down slowly, but still not back to a 2019 level that was deemed dangerously high even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Stefanie Simmons, MD, FACEP, chief medical officer of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation, discusses trends in burnout and suicide for physicians and other medical specialties.