Dx: Crisis: An Informal Conversation With Stanton N. Smullens, MD, FACS, and SaraKay Smullens, MSW, LCSW, About Burnout, Depression, and COVID-19

Abstract

Before the pandemic, clinicians were experiencing high rates of burnout, and physician death by suicide was occurring at an alarming rate. COVID-19 has exacerbated a dire situation. As this crisis was unfolding, we sat down (i.e., zoomed) with Dr. Stanton N. Smullens, chair of the Patient Safety Authority, and his wife, SaraKay Smullens, therapist and best-selling author who completed five years of research on burnout, to discuss a growing crisis, the effects of the coronavirus, and why the future may be more positive than you think.