What to Do?

I too tire of imperfection.
So nice to fly away from the same old
To see our world from 30,000 feet
To seek out only the cream,
in a far-off place.

There is truth
in beauty and perfection,
but our methods are yet crude. 

Impatience and perfectionism
- murderous companions - 
ensnaring foolish youth
unleashing hell on earth.

"It is no measure of health
to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society"
wrote Krishnamurti.

It certainly is a measure of health
to channel my energy
- be it anger or love -
to lessen, 
instead of adding to
suffering in our one shared world.

Latest Massacre - Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Burnout BEFORE Admission to Professional Schools?

     "... burnout is when physicians feel emotionally exhausted, depersonalised (ie, cynical & detached), and ineffective; when they feel 'an erosion in values, dignity, spirit, & will'."

        Ronald M. Epstein, Michael R. Privitera. "Doing something about physician burnout."

        www.thelancet.com Published Online September 28, 2016 

        http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(16)31332-0 

     An excellent podcast: https://resident360.nejm.org/content_items/1423

     But what percentage of students entering health-care (& other professions) have ever paid appropriate attention to their "values, dignity, spirit, & will"? How much does our society, or for that matter professional school admissions committees, actually value these self-reflective, spiritual matters? 

     I suggest that very few in our society care deeply about this: http://www.johnlovas.com/2016/11/the-power-of-self-knowledge-and-self.html

     Even within professional schools, a corrosive segment of both students & faculty ("hidden curriculum") are actively hostile even towards standard courses in the humanities: http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/2012/07/soft-skills-undervalued.html

     But neglecting inner poverty does become debilitating sooner or later: http://jglovas.wixsite.com/awarenessnow/single-post/2016/12/06/Delusion-of-Self-estrangement