Are We the Walking Dead? Burnout as Zombie Apocalypse

Thanks for writing all this out. As a non writer, much of it goes through my brain daily and I cannot imagine setting it out so well in many paragraphs and organized sentences :) Also, in rural Maine I do not have much TV and do not know the zombie show...

I think that, and I read Frankl in med school, that indeed coaching and breathing exercises and resilience training etc indeed do not help much. If they do, great. As the hassles have become overwhelming for me as never before, I have found that what used to be the hard part is the nice part, The actual medicine is much more fun and rewarding despite its difficulties, but also I am older and do it better. Ha- one difficulty is so much worse it supplants the other. I have work life balance but that creates the hassles, in going slower, of financial worry.

The author is right- some things can slide off and the bigger picture of what life is about is most important, but we MUST get the hassles reduced to save primary care. We must.

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