In his keynote address at this year’s Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit, Thom Mayer, MD, FACEP, likened the health care practitioners in the audience to the professional football players he routinely treats.
“Every person here is no different than my NFL athletes — 2,500 of them — who participate in a high-performance activity with a cycle of performance, rest and recovery,” Mayer, medical director for the NFL Players Association, said during his presentation. “I’d also suggest that the ‘rest and recovery’ part has been a bit