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Nowhere does the adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” apply more than in the area of physician wellness and burnout prevention. Physician burnout, in which physicians become dissatisfied and lose a sense of efficacy with their profession, has become so widespread that it is considered a public health crisis. There are some strategies, and data, that social science have shown to be useful to improve day-to-day and year-to-year life and happiness. We will attempt to review these, with special attention to the work-related nemesis of happiness/wellness: burnout.
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Lloyd, G.L., McAchran, S.E. (2022). Burnout, Happiness and Work-Life Harmony. In: Nakada, S.Y., Patel, S.R. (eds) Navigating Organized Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05540-9_17
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