The growing problem of burnout among medical professionals has created divergent schools of thought, and the subsequent debate has begun to reverberate throughout the entire healthcare system. Within the context of this complex conversation, two distinct groups have emerged, each supporting their own vision for improving the lives of overworked physicians, nurses, and others. On…
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The following is an adaptation of an email I sent to one of my physician clients after I had sent him a poem by Li-Young Lee called “The Gift.” First the poem and then the reply to his reaction: Here is the edited email to my physician client in response to his reaction: I’m happy…
Physician burnout is not caused simply because physicians work too many hours or have too much to do. The “cynicism, depression, and lethargy that are characteristic of burnout most often occur when a person is not in control of how a job is carried out or [they are] asked to complete tasks that conflict with [their] sense…
When we think of traumatic stress, we typically imagine thesoldier who experiences the horrors of war, the child who is abused, or someonewho witnesses a horrible accident. But there is a lesser-understood type of traumaticstress. It’s called Complex Trauma (CT), and its impact can be just asharmful. One of the ways CT can occur is…