Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations
Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. (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 is unclear to me who first applied the term to doctors.
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