This unique, step-by-step guide offers a comprehensive exploration of burnout and physician wellbeing, a vital issue that steadily has become widely discussed in the professional and mainstream press.   More than twenty chapter authors contribute to this multidimensional volume, including physicians, psychologists, researchers, healthcare administrators, chaplains, professional coaches, and counselors. Section one of the book establishes context, provides a brief overview of the phenomenon of physician burnout, establishes its validity, and makes a case for the reason it has emerged as a critical issue in American healthcare.  Section two provides a rationale for healthcare institutions (hospitals, physician groups, medical associations) to make a commitment to physician wholeness, while section three then starts the process of delineating a step-by-step curriculum to address the dilemma, providing additional detail and personal experience direct from the frontlines of combatting burnout. Section four focuses on developing and sustaining a healthy professional culture that is aligned with the mission of the organization, and section five addresses the spiritual component of physician wholeness,   Section six concludes the book with two personal essays that poignantly express the nature of two common experiences affecting physicians that require uncommon insight, patience, courage. Transforming the Heart of Practice is a major contribution to the literature and will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with addressing this crisis in American healthcare.

What is The Problem?

Physician Wellbeing in Changing Times: An Overview
Research on Physician Burnout and Wellbeing: A Solutions-Oriented Perspective
Why Should We Care?
What is Our Physician Culture Now and What Does It Need to Be?
Preventing Burnout Through Physician Integration: An Organizational Approach to Physicians That Can Improve Physicians' Personal Work Life Integration
Physician Accountability and Medicus Integra©
Respect
Trust
How to Get Started?
A Single Step and a Thousand Miles
Physicians, Heal One Another: A Letter to Health Care Administrators
How Doctors Are Wired
Organizational Opportunities to Enhance Physician Learning
What Models Have Worked in Other Places?
Physician Wellbeing as A Matter of Mission: What We Have Learned at Adventist Health and Through the Coalition for Physician Wellbeing
Forming a Physician Culture of Mission and Wellbeing
Provider's Mission Fit and Alignment
New Physician Assimilation: The Role of Mentoring
Shining a LIGHT to Wellbeing
Collegiality and Physician Wellbeing
Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting
What About the Spiritual Dimension?
Physicians and Spirituality
Physician Wellbeing from the Perspective of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
Spirituality and Physician Wellbeing in Multi-faith Contexts
Mindful Living: Harnessing the Power of the Moment
A Philosophical Rationale for a Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Approach to Wellbeing
"Remember Who You Are" - The Journey Home: A Perspective on Integrity Through the Writings of Parker J. Palmer
How do Particular Aspects of Life Affect Physician Wellbeing?
Living 24/6 in a 24/7 World
The Physician Family
The Servant Physician
The Physician Mother
The Hurting Physician and Family.