"Doctors and nurses are burning out in record numbers. This book introduces physicians and other healthcare professionals to a guided therapeutic modality that is original, accessible, and powerful, giving them a practice they can integrate in their lives. The book is structured around three dimensions of physician burnout. Each chapter focuses on a distinct area in which writing can help defend against or recover from burnout; the science behind each chapters promise or goal is unpacked. Writing has been shown to be a useful tool for dealing with a variety of mental health challenges, and this work specifically guides healthcare professionals on the challenges they face on the job"-- Provided by publisher."A compassionate guide to writing your way back to purpose for healthcare professionals. Physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals are leaving medicine in record numbers due in large part to exhaustion, disillusionment, and a profound loss of joy in their work. In A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals, Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, MD, offers a powerful, science-backed remedy to burnout in the healthcare field: reflective writing.

This guide is a structured, compassionate companion for those who want to stay in the profession they once loved and renew their sense of purpose. In this book organized around the three dimensions of burnout identified by psychologist Christina Maslach-emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a perceived lack of efficacy -each chapter introduces a focused writing practice to help clinicians reconnect with their values, strengthen empathy, and rediscover meaning in their work. Dr. Roy-Bornstein brings more than three decades of experience as a nurse, pediatrician, and narrative medicine educator to this deeply personal and practical work. She knows firsthand how writing can transform grief, trauma, and professional disillusionment into clarity, self-awareness, and healing. These evidence-based and insightful exercises are designed to be brief yet sustaining antidotes to the pace and pressures of modern healthcare. Whether used privately or in groups, in early training or late-career reflection, A Prescription for Burnout offers clinicians not just strategies for surviving the system but tools to reclaim their voice-and their vocation"-- Provided by publisher.