How physician exhaustion kills compassion — and nurtures shame

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How physician exhaustion kills compassion — and nurtures shame

“A patient’s family chose comfort care, and my first thought was, ‘One less.’”: How lack of sleep shreds doctors’ empathy.



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[HopelessMS]

This was me during night shifts. Exhausted, I experienced myself cursing at the computer screen seeing the same patients repeatedly returning to the ER after discharged days before after lengthy stays. I had 0 empathy left in my tank.