The hidden cost of health care: burnout, disillusionment, and systemic betrayal
An excerpt from Doctor Slave: Reflections on the Future of Medicine.
The distance from clinical practice provided a clarity that was impossible to achieve while embedded within the system. From outside, I could see patterns, pressures, and paradoxes that had been invisible when I was caught in the daily grind.
I recognized that many aspects of modern health care that are presented as inevitable or necessary are actually artificial constructs designed …
The hidden cost of health care: burnout, disillusionment, and systemic betrayal






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