We have been calling it burnout. The word took decades to arrive, and then it was everywhere. It appears in journal editorials, hospital wellness initiatives, and continuing medical education (CME) modules on resilience. It has validated scales. It is now the official language of physician distress. It is not wrong. But it is incomplete. It
Beyond physician burnout and understanding structural immiseration originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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