The following study evaluates the utility of a computer-based, interactive, and individualized intervention for promoting well-being in US surgeons. This objective was intended to test the authors’ original assessment that distress and burnout are a normal part of being a physician and lack of awareness of distress level relative to colleagues contribute to a certain unwillingness among surgeons for them to seek help on their own initiative. The study eventually corroborated this claim and indicated that US surgeons do not reliably calibrate their level of distress.