NIOSH and physician burnout: Who takes the lead?

How important is physician leadership in establishing a healthy workplace culture? It is essential, but doctors are outnumbered by nurses and managed by administrators, so a team approach is necessary in a health care setting if staff hope to use the new Impact Wellbeing Guide: Taking Action to Improve Healthcare Worker Wellbeing, with steps to combat health care burnout. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said institute director John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, MBA.