Doctors can both get and treat burnout

Doctors can be in the unenviable position of having worse burnout than the patients they are treating with it.
It is always hard to recognise ones own burnout and dedicated personnel in the caring professions are at particular risk of developing yet not acknowledging their burnout.

However the first step in treating burnout in society as a whole must surely be for the medical profession to start treating itself more kindly.

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Doctors as burnout sufferers

Doctors as burnout diagnosticians

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