Featured on KevinMD: What If Medicine Had an Exit Interview?

PreceptorLink® owner and founder, Lynn McComas, DNP, ANP-C, shares her latest perspective in the newly published KevinMD article, “What If Medicine Had an Exit Interview?” In this powerful piece, Lynn explores the quiet and often overlooked reality of clinicians leaving the profession—and the silence that follows.

Drawing from her experience in healthcare leadership and provider support, Lynn challenges the system’s tendency to move on without reflection when a clinician resigns. She poses a critical question: what could we learn if we simply asked why they left?

From missed birthdays and moral injury to chronic understaffing and the erosion of identity, Lynn sheds light on the emotional and systemic weight many providers carry before making the decision to walk away. Her article encourages healthcare leaders to look beyond “burnout” and examine what’s truly driving clinicians out of the field.

As someone deeply invested in provider well-being and the future of healthcare, Lynn believes we must stop viewing these exits as isolated events and start treating them as data points for real change.

👉 Read the full article on KevinMD here. 

Let’s stop scrambling to replace the clinicians walking out the door and start listening to them first.​