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The NYT is talking about what we in medicine/nursing have known for years. It just gets harder every day to practice ethically. But I argue, we are not "burnt out", that blames the victims for their very real sense of moral injury and distress. The SYSTEM is breaking us; it's not our fault.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/hospitals-doctors-nurses-burnout.html?fbclid=IwAR3OJnYMby6P4z2GLW1Ui4ZX56LZBETLJHMSSXut7SScfg1isHHvegQvWCY

((slow clapping)) spot on.

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