TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Striving and Thriving: Challenges and Opportunities for Clinician Emotional Wellness A1 - Childers, Julie W. A1 - Arnold, Robert M. A1 - Carey, Elise C. A2 - Schwartz, Rachel A2 - Hall, Judith A. A2 - Osterberg, Lars G. Y1 - 2021 N1 - T2 - Emotion in the Clinical Encounter AB - As clinicians, our work is focused on achieving patients’ health. A chapter on clinician wellness may feel extraneous, narcissistic even. Why is maintaining our well-being important? First, there is evidence that clinician well-being affects patient care.1 Physicians and other healthcare professionals who are experiencing burnout are more likely to report making medical errors,2 and less likely to be perceived as compassionate and caring by patients and families.3 Second, clinicians who are burned out are more likely to leave the practice of medicine or reduce the hours that they devote to medicine; similar results have been found for nurses.4,5 This loss of clinicians is costly for society. For physicians alone, in the United States we spend $15 billion per year to train residents to become practicing physicians.6 Finally, as community leaders promoting well-being it feels hypocritical to urge our patients to make difficult changes to promote their well-being, if we are unwilling to make the same changes. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182527424 ER -