Medical Student Burnout

[liveonearth]

and misery.... good article about it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/health/chen10-30.html?_r=3&emc=eta1

Comments

[bodylove.livejournal.com]

thanks for the link....although i'm not in med school, I've worked in social services with ill people for years and I'm experiencing burn out like never before....feeling so low and like I've lost compassion, and questioning the path I always thought I wanted to be on. although I still feel I'm heading in the right direction, I know I need to take better care of myself or I won't be able to help anyone

[hausfrauatu.livejournal.com]

Residency is absolute hell. It's what makes M.D.s feel entitled to make a brazillion dollars a year. No one is happy working 80 to 120 hours per week. Duhhhh!

They work such long hours I don't want one touching me EVER. My good friend's husband is a newly minted trauma surgeon. Yeah. They are supposed to LOOOOOVE it. It's considered pointless and unprofessional to admit to how beat down and exhausted you are.

U of M's Residency had a 110% divorce rate among married residents. Go Blue! Yes. Some got divorced remarried and divorced again. How did they find the time?