Letter re: How can neurologists avoid burnout?

We read with interest the article by Dr. Bernat,1 which gave an overview on how to avoid or reduce burnout for neurologists. It is a good approach to recreate workflows and give space to meet the most demanding individual requirements. A great way to expand the interventions to promote mental well-being would be by adding mindfulness-based interventions. Goodman and Schorling2 published a pre–post observational study on mindfulness-based stress reduction for health care providers, with impressive results. The intervention was for a period of 8 weeks,2 which is a good index that rapid improvement of individual well-being is possible. Significant improvement was achieved on the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment scales.2 This proposed approach is progressing toward a high-grade solution, including different ways to improve the health of neurologists. It remains to be seen if this approach can be implemented rapidly.
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research