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My name is Deborah Saint-Phard. I am a Black woman physician who works in a medical academic department and who founded and directs a women’s sports medicine program. And I live at the intersection of physician burnout, the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism.
In 2016, during my annual review with my chairperson, I stated point-blank, “I cannot think about stress fractures anymore.” Since this had been my clinical area of expertise for more than two decades, that pronouncement was a bit surprising to us both. Instead, I wanted to work on emotional stress fractures, also known as burnout.
In May 2018, I convened a two-day conference in the Colorado mountains for physicians, physicians’ assistants, nurses, CEOs and hospital administrators to learn about this urgent concern. I read articles and presented grand rounds locally and keynotes regionally on this topic; attended local, regional and national conferences on physician health; joined committees on physician resilie