Burnout isn’t a personal failure…but it feels like it is when you’re on the way there

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Burnout isn’t a personal failure…but it feels like it is when you’re on the way there

15 March 2023

Emma Dunning

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 12:30 AM

Individuals are more likely to thrive in a team with good systems that value their humanity

Burnout is an understandable response to social and working conditions, writes Emma Dunning in this analysis of the stresses bearing down on GPs

I don’t know why it has taken me so long to connect the word burnout with myself. I could have saved myself a great deal of angst if I had done so soo

Mental Health

References

Redesign your practice. Reignite your purpose (website and STEPS Forward resources) – American Medical Association.

Francis, G. Britain’s health service is in such dire straits that doctors like me are expected to have to cut corners. The Economist (online 9 January).

Talbot SG, Dean W. Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury. Stat (online 26 July 2018).

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