Team Wellness: Avoiding and Overcoming Burnout

It is not uncommon for palliative care specialists to feel overworked, especially if the team is understaffed.

In this episode, we speak with Wendy L. Knowlton, DO, a palliative care specialist with Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, who has experienced burnout firsthand. Wendy shares how at the time of burnout, she felt extremely overwhelmed and exhausted from the difficulties of her job, and discusses how this experience helped her make changes for the better.