Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations
Pamela Wible MD
JUNE 20, 2025
Psychiatrists define burnout as a job-related dysphoria in an individual without major psychopathy—meaning you’re normal; your job is killing you. Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.) So why are physicians experiencing physical and mental collapse from overwork?
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