Burnout has become the silent epidemic within our healthcare system — draining energy, compassion, and billions of dollars every year. In this episode, Dr. Kee Chan unpacks the real cost of clinician burnout and reveals why prevention isn’t just good medicine — it’s good economics.

Drawing from her textbook Public and Population Health: Perspectives for Health Systems Management, she introduces the Social Return on Investment (SROI) model and shows how design thinking and systems thinking can reframe workforce well-being as a measurable strategy, not an afterthought.

Listeners will learn:

• Why clinician burnout is a systems failure, not a personal flaw
• How prevention yields measurable financial and human ROI
• What healthcare leaders can do to redesign workplaces for resilience and retention
• Why investing in the people who care for us is the smartest, most sustainable public-health strategy of all

“When we design systems that care for caregivers, we don’t just heal burnout — we heal healthcare itself.”

Resources:

Public and Population Health: Perspectives for Health Systems Management (American College of Healthcare Executives)

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