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Addressing External Factors

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The rapidly changing health care environment has profoundly affected clinician wellbeing, and the percentage of surgeons with one or more manifestations of burnout has been increasing along with an equivalent decrease in the proportion who report high job satisfaction. This chapter will focus on addressing the external factors that impact physician wellbeing.

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Sanfey, H. (2020). Addressing External Factors. In: Kim, E., Lindeman, B. (eds) Wellbeing. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29470-0_14

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