This unique step-by-step guide offers a comprehensive exploration of burnout and physician
wellbeing a vital issue that steadily has become widely discussed in the professional and
mainstream press. More than twenty chapter authors contribute to this multidimensional volume
including physicians psychologists researchers healthcare administrators chaplains
professional coaches and counselors. Section one of the book establishes context provides a
brief overview of the phenomenon of physician burnout establishes its validity and makes a
case for the reason it has emerged as a critical issue in American healthcare. Section two
provides a rationale for healthcare institutions (hospitals physician groups medical
associations) to make a commitment to physician wholeness while section three then starts the
process of delineating a step-by-step curriculum to address the dilemma providing additional
detail and personal experience direct from the frontlines of combatting burnout. Section four
focuses on developing and sustaining a healthy professional culture that is aligned with the
mission of the organization and section five addresses the spiritual component of physician
wholeness Section six concludes the book with two personal essays that poignantly express the
nature of two common experiences affecting physicians that require uncommon insight patience
courage. Transforming the Heart of Practice is a major contribution to the literature and will
serve as an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with addressing this crisis in American
healthcare.
