This Week In The Journal

Health care's institutional goals of abbreviating hospital stays and accelerating clinic visits are feeding professional loneliness, and meaningful advances in technology have levied a significant toll in the form of separation from patients and colleagues. The transition away from routine interaction with patients and colleagues toward more individual activities has contributed to loneliness and burnout. Addressing physicians' loneliness in the 21st century requires finding innovative ways to interact with each other. In recent years, health care leaders have increasingly turned to "nudges" to influence health-related behaviors. But harmful health and health care behaviors often arise in circumstances that give us . . .