Burnout refers to a state of having no energy or enthusiasm because of working too hard or extreme tiredness or a feeling of not being able to work anymore. It is prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job. All over the world, this is being recognised as an important problem among doctors having an impact on quality of care with economic burden for country. It has been recognised in other high performing fields too. Burnout in medical professionals has been recognised for some time now, and it can have an significant impact job performance, lower productivity and quality of life [2]. Interventions done to reduce this problem is scarce and patchy. This review focusses various causes and suggests holistic approach in corporating variety of therapeutic measures.

Keywords: Burnout; Health Professionals; Physician.