From the Practice
Evidence-based writing on organizational health, physician wellbeing, burnout, and what it actually takes to build systems that sustain the people inside them. By Joyce Davidson, PhD, LCSW.
Most organizational wellbeing programs are designed to catch people on the way out the door. After the burnout. After the breakdown. After the quiet resignation. We've built elaborate systems for late-stage intervention and called it support.
After 17 years of working with healthcare professionals, I can tell you something that the burnout literature doesn't always make clear: by the time most people recognize they're burned out, they've been burned out for a long time.
Organizational wellbeing has a strategic problem: it is almost universally treated as an HR benefit rather than an operational necessity. Until that changes, the programs designed to support people will remain structurally incapable of doing so at scale.
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