“The compulsive triad of doubt, guilt, and (an exaggerated sense of) responsibility can have an enormous impact on physicians’ professional, personal, and family lives.
Diminished awareness of one’s physical and emotional needs leads to a self-destructive pattern of overwork. A psychology of postponement takes root, in which physicians habitually delay in attending to their significant relationships and other sources of renewal until all the work is done or the next professional hurdle is achieved.”
Kearney MK. et al. Self-care of physicians
caring for patients at the end of life: "Being connected... a key to my
survival." Jama 2009; 301(11): 1155-64, E1.
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work.
But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” Henry David Thoreau
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