Working long hours day after day, month after month, buried endlessly under a mountain of paperwork and glitchy administrative software. Not only do many healthcare professionals think this is normal, but many don’t even consider the need to change.

Despite the increased attention to the burnout crisis among physicians, Medscape’s 2023 U.S. physician burnout and depression report showed the problem has increased by 11 percentage points, to 53%, compared to the 2018 report. If the industry doesn’t remedy this crisis, physicians will go from being burned out to being burned in, which will be an even bigger crisis.