Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all surviving midterms! For Week 5’s meeting, we discussed an article about the compassion fatigue and physician burnout.
Article description:
The notion of physician burnout has been gaining more notoriety, but there is still significant debate about its causes. Is it caused by doctors simply “caring too much” or are there other causes that are inherent within the healthcare system? The following article argues that the former is not the case, and although fatigue can arise from being compassionate, the recovery rate is much better than that of physician burnout. In sum, the author argues that it is crucial for doctors to display compassion towards their patients, as it is a therapeutic relationship and should be treated as such.
Article link: http://www.compassionfatigue.org/pages/HuggardMedicalEducation.pdf
Good luck with the rest of your midterms! We’ll see you at our Week 7 meeting!