As a medical graduate student, I've been told multiple times by both professors and clinical supervisors about burnout and how to notice signs of if and when it occurs in myself. This is a book that is a great resource for any student or medical professional that feels that burnout is just around the corner. I would highly recommend it.

Burnout in Healthcare is very real and the author knows his subject. The book is very dry and doesn't offer great ideas on how to fix the issues of burn out in the healthcare field.

While this may not be the most perfectly written or entertaining book, it absolutely addresses an important subject for those of us in healthcare as providers as well as the patients who need care. Therefore, it will most likely touch everyone someday. As a patient in need of care, do you want your providers engaged and enthusiastic about taking the best care of you that they can? Going above and beyond for you when needed? Keeping costs down but spending the time with you as the patient? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then this does effect you. We as medical professionals do not want our faces buried in paperwork, computers, busywork or fighting with insurance companies. We want to take care of people. Patients also want that from their providers. This is more urgent of a problem as the depression and suicide rate amongst healthcare providers has increased over the recent years.
I have found that a lot of the burn out can be prevented if you recognize the causes for it up front and avoid cornering yourself into a career that traps you into an unyielding schedule and demands for perfection in order to receive your compensation. Decide what you have to have in your career/life and what you can let go of and then build the work environment that fits that best.
I am certainly glad to see these issues being addressed and would recommend this book to those entering the healthcare field. I have enjoyed being in this field and wouldn’t want to do anything else, but I think its best to go into it with all the facts that you can have at your disposal. This is a step on that process. Well done and thank you.

I know that a book like this one doesn't suppose to be fun but... Oh, my, that was really boring. It reads like a college paper, easy to read and understand, but boring nevertheless.

Reads like a short pamphlet given out at a mandatory company meeting.
Burnout and stressed out are real in healthcare. Don’t get me wrong. But this book does not offer REAL solutions unless you are one of the people at the top.
If you are a floor nurse,CNA, lab worker etc.... you are often REQUIRED to work all those extra hours, be declined for vacation requests, declined to drop to less hours and often given more work than you have time to perform. And sadly companies by and large do not give two hoops in hell about your personal happiness.
Was hoping for clear solutions in this book and I did not find them

I could not keep my interest in this book. I could not finish reading this. This despite an interesting start. The book lost me about half way through.

Burnout in Healthcare: A Guide to Addressing the Epidemic by Rajeev Kurapati, MD, MBA

105 pages
Ebook, nonfiction, healthcare
BookBuzz.net pub
July 26, 2019

Review requested by publisher and provided by NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review.

Burnout in Healthcare explores the balancing act medical professionals face daily with mounting expectations to decrease cost while maintaining quality care. The digitization of medicine has created an overload of information not previously available.

The author researches the nature of the slow burnout process and how professionals tend to overlook the symptoms in themselves. It can be easy to disregard irritability, anxiety, insomnia and depression as symptoms of a bigger issue. He shares his key identifying factors as: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and decreased function at work which he refers to as DEF.

I’ve been a registered nurse for over 20 years, working in a variety of settings including hospital, school and health insurance. Each job has its own challenges which over time becomes stressful. After reading the detailed descriptions of emotional distress listed in this book, I realize I might not have been as “burned out” as I thought! The concept of job burnout is certainly not new especially for healthcare workers. He makes an important point regarding the major impact of technology and digitization in healthcare.

While the rise of technology does help with speed and accuracy of care, it can also have the reverse effect. When already overwhelmed workers are given more information to assess in the same time period it becomes an impossible cycle to break. In order to feel like you’ve accomplished most of your goals during the day, a doctor or nurse usually ignores the physical cues that indicate you need to take a break. It helps no one to work over 12 hours without taking a break to use restroom or eat lunch.

The book addresses ways in which institutions should address this ongoing epidemic. The ripple effect of the increased decline in workers emotional and physical health has long lasting effects. He suggests taking a proactive, engaging approach with the focus on effective communication and fostering professional growth. He reiterates that healthcare burnout is a systemic issue which needs to be measured and monitored with targeted solutions.

Although much work needs to be done at the administration level there are still ways in which individuals can improve their resilience in the workplace. The author provides detailed research based resources for his suggestions through out the book.

I'm a burned out healthcare workers so I can testify to this book's truth. There are many solutions put forth by people who don't understand what is happening but this book is different.

A good overview of burnout that offers information about some of the reasons it develops and outlines some ideas of how to combat it. The author provides some anecdotal information regarding friends and acquaintances in the medical community who have developed burnout, with a cursory look at the reasons why.
While there is some good information here, it is more useful as an introduction to the concept of burnout and perhaps providing some insight into the idea that individuals experiencing burnout are not alone. There is some information on how to begin combating burnout, however for the individual who is experiencing burnout they may want to seek more in depth information as they attempt to bring themselves into balance.
This book serves an important place as it provides information that can assure others that they are not alone, often the first step in seeking to understand personal situations. More emphasis on finding others with similar experiences might have been useful as the individual seeks to establish a community to help him/her as they establish strategies for dealing with their burnout.
For people who are not in the healthcare industry, this book may serve as an introduction to some of the issues medical personnel may face. It does not go the extra step, however, in making any suggestions for someone who is observing burnout in another individual for how they might offer support to individuals in need.

An essential book for any healthcare professional to manage one of the most common phenomenas of the care environment. It clearly defines and offers practical solutions to burn out, and preventative measures to put into place. I thought it was worded well, and not at all patronising as some solution presenting books can be. The descriptions of burn out and people at risk of burn out were much more recognisable in reality than any I'd read before.
One point which has also been emphasised in Johann Hari's 'Lost connections', is the need for community in all aspects of life, but especially as a support network in stressful work places. The cultivation of community is stated as a solution in this book and its benefits in relation to burn out could be even further explored.