Abstract
Work-Life Balance: Striking the Right Chords for Harmony.
Highlights
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Pediatric Critical Care, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics
Garcia et al (1) reported a burnout level as high as 71% among Brazilian pediatric intensivists. While these data may not be reflective of prevalence in other countries, a rate of burnout as high as 50% was reported by Fields et al (2) 20 years ago too
Burnout represents the far end of the spectrum of a chronically disrupted work–life balance, and these numbers should serve as a clarion call to us
Summary
Reviewed by: Yoke Hwee Chan, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Specialty section: This article was submitted to Pediatric Critical Care, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics. As a mother of two young children and a fellow in pediatric critical care, I was often asked the question: “how do you do it?” I certainly liked to think that I was balancing work and life appropriately. More often than not there was no choice to be made about what the need of the hour was – the bare minimum at work and home accounted for every minute.
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