Additional support and flexibility in academia following a loss can foster recovery and may help reduce burnout among health care professionals, according to an opinion piece published in JAMA.
Krista Harrison, PhD, a faculty member in the division of geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and a researcher in systems of care for older adults with serious illnesses like dementia, called for a change in “the norms and expectations around loss and bereavement” in academia.
“Academia rewards those who can make hardship invisible, who can be productive amid and