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the discomfort I felt then was not the loss of but the return to myself.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
I have wasted much time and energy in my career looking for reassurance that I was not a fraud and, specifically, that I had more to offer my patients than the qualities they seemed to value most.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
The legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills proposed that the “sociological imagination”—an understanding of how our own experiences reflect broader social and historical forces—could help us link our seemingly private troubles to public issues. Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system, is a prime candidate for such reimagining.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Opinion | The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses (Published 2019)
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Watch for these signs: Bad attitude. This is self-explanatory. Unfulfilled. Serving ceases to be satisfying. Reactionary rather than proactive. You sit around waiting to be told what to do. Noncommunicative. You stop returning people’s emails. Overly stressed. It’s the feeling that you’re carrying the world on your shoulders. Unmotivated. It’s not
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Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Discomfort, conflict, and tension offer us nourishment.