Can physicians—perfectionist people-pleasers with high exposure to human suffering and “burnout”—ever achieve true wellness?
Why does physician wellness feel like a contradiction?
Here are five reasons why it often is:
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Physician Wellness: An Oxymoron? →
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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations →
(Published 3/18/19, updated 6/20/25)
What Is Physician “Burnout”—and Why It Matters
Physician “burnout” is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress in the medical workplace. It’s a growing crisis affecting over half of all doctors in the U.S.,
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A surgeon’s video library of “sad cases.” Can they ever be erased? →
By Bob Peters, M.D.
Few surgeries are filmed. All are stored in our bodies as lived experiences.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could erase certain memories? Ones we most wish to forget may impact us
forever—our traumatic cases. Our saddest moments pop into our consciousness and seem to never
leave.
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What Is the Least Painful Way To Die? →
What is the least painful way to die? Why do people commit suicide painfully? Why do doctors commit suicide in such painful and scary ways?
First, we should agree that it’s better to say that a person has died of suicide than to say that they have committed suicide.
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NBC News: The Real Reason Doctors Burn Out →
View on NBC News. Full transcript below.
Medical Resident: Frustrating is way too benign of a word. It’s an infuriating system that we practice in.
Dr. Umut Sarpel: I don’t think most doctors get burnt out by doctoring,
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Top 10 Lies Doctors Tell Themselves →
I’m Dr. Pamela Wible. I run a suicide helpline for doctors. I hear from a lot of physicians with distorted thinking patterns that limit our ability to reach our full potential as healers on this planet. Recognize any?
1. “I’m stuck in assembly line medicine.”
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Top 10 Fears That Hold Doctors Back →
What prevents us from being the doctors we always imagined? We enter medicine as inspired, intelligent, compassionate humanitarians. Soon we’re cynical and exhausted. How did all these totally amazing and high-functioning people get screwed up so fast? Attention: med students and doctors: It’s not your fault.
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10 signs it’s time to quit your job →
Attention all nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, midwives, doctors and anyone else in health care: here are the top 10 warning signs that it is time to quit your job. The first three are mine. The rest are from colleagues. If you recognize anything on this list,
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“Burnout” ~ a smokescreen for human rights abuse →
“Burnout” is a smokescreen for rampant human rights violations in medicine. Am I losing anyone here? Let me break it down.
“Burnout” is a complete mental and physical collapse from overwork. Psychiatrists define it as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy.
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Meditation is not the treatment for human rights abuse →
Doctors who complain about inhumane working conditions are often labeled as “burned out” or “lacking resilience” or even “disruptive.”
Their employers respond by mandating resiliency classes so they can learn mindfulness, deep breathing, or yoga. Victims get instructed in work-life balance, boundaries, and other ways to conform to their workplace abuse.
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