MedPage Today April 25, 2024
— Too many physicians are not meeting their own basic needs
We are emergency medicine physicians familiar with burnout. We’re not alone. In fact, 65% of emergency medicine doctors are burned out. The irony is that the people who take an oath to care for sick people are themselves working in a system that fails to protect their health. We have learned the individual limitations of changing a complex work culture. As a result, we adapted by realizing our individual agency. While the system and culture of any workplace is figuring itself out, individuals can learn fundamental concrete steps — we call them “microskills” — for self-care.
Baked into the culture of many workplaces is a denial of biological functions:...
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