KevinMD July 5, 2024
Deciphering burnout can sometimes feel like interpreting the orders of your favorite attending physician. Though I don’t consider myself “old,” I started my medical career before electronic medical records, when paper charts were the norm and computers were rare. We carried little pocket notebooks filled with essential information because at 2 am, after weeks of little sleep, that crucial detail always seemed to slip our minds.
Back then, we relied on pagers—old-school devices that would blare at us unexpectedly throughout the day. Some pagers didn’t even have caller IDs, so remembering the callback number was challenging. If you are lucky, you might get a newer pager with a display for checking messages. Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but that’s how...
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