What is the light? What a joy to have you here. You are among friends and it seems that there are many who know

of your work and there are many who don't. You are a highly educated man but I am

devoid of education so you have to. Well, you know as... Maximal ounces for me. That's lovely

to say. I am so well educated I have rediscovered a joyful curiosity and while it is true I have made

a decrease after my name as I have lost my hair and become more wrinkly. I have so enjoyed

a spirit of joyful curiosity. So in the spirit of hospitality, in the spirit of joyful curiosity

and coming together across traditions I would love to hear your thoughts on a number of topics.

The one that is near and dear to my heart as an educator and as a physician and a pastor

is this area of wellness and burnout. Physicians today, a big study came out. 54% of physicians in

America meet criteria for burnout and nurses are in the same boat and you are here at a medical

school and we are looking for answers and we are looking for hope and so to those 54% of physicians

who are burned out in the nurses and PAs and nurse practitioners all of us in health care.

What would you say to them?

If we have to bring health into ourselves or to others,

one fundamental thing is you bring a very profound sense of wholeness into you,

the various dimensions of life that we are. All of it is in sync and functioning well.

It's sad to hear that physicians are in a state of burnout. How would they cause health?

They could sell more medicine but they cannot cause health if they are in a state of burnout.

Now we are seeing as modern medicine progresses comes out with medical, after-miracle,

research, all kinds of things but people are not getting healthy. More people are getting sick than

ever before. A country like United States which is the most affluent country on the planet

which essentially means you have a choice of nourishment. Every human being has a choice of

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