Burnout is the word everyone in healthcare uses... but few have the time to think about what it really means. For this special, Medlines anchors Adam Rose and Eva Johnson stepped away from the weekly headlines to dig into it properly, sitting down with historians, clinicians, and the people building physician wellness programs from the inside. Part 1 traces what burnout really is, what it does to clinicians, and how the profession got here. Part 2 turns to solutions: what is working, what is not, and what medicine owes the people who practice it.
This page is the home for the full extended cuts of both episodes, longer than the versions in your feed, with interview segments and context we could not fit into a regular release.
Part 1: How We Got Here
Part 2: What Actually Works (Coming soon!)
Part 2 arrives December 22, 2026 and will be posted here as soon as it drops.
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