Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations
Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork? Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Individuals with moral injury may see themselves and the world as immoral and irreparable. Not burnout.
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