It isn’t physician burnout. It’s erosion.
I understand why clinicians kill themselves.
That’s not a dramatic opening. It’s a fact I’ve carried for years, one that most people in medicine understand but rarely say out loud, because saying it feels like an indictment of something we gave everything to.
And yet here we are. Still losing people. Still calling it something it isn’t.
The word everyone reaches for is “burnout.” It’s on hospital posters, in wellness newsletters, in keynote …
It isn’t physician burnout. It’s erosion.
