Happier Doctors Are Better Doctors: New Study

Half of all orthopedic surgeons may not enjoy their work—and that depressing statistic prompted a team from The University of Texas at Austin to develop and test a new “happiness” measure which, the team hopes, will capture the “positive attributes to which a team aspires.” Their work, “Development of a Brief, Positively Framed Care Team Experience Measure,” was published in the December 3, 2024 edition of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.