The Importance of Physician Well Being in Emergency Medicine

I actually ended up coming back into the academic sphere of emergency medicine and I started working on physician well being. Around that time a buddy of mine who was actually a commercial airline pilot talked about some of the fatigue work that they do in in aviation. And it occurred to me that we never talk about that in emergency medicine. We just kind of assume that we are ready to go to work every day. That really sparked something in me about this idea that perhaps my burnout was not a problem with me in emergency Medicine. Perhaps there was something going on in the system of health care that was causing me ultimately to feel burned out.