The Cost of Burnout: Why Preventing Exhaustion Saves Healthcare

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…