Cabinbuilder is right. I am not burned out. Expect to have these types of days in medicine, especially residency. They can be bad, but having an outlet to deal with the emotions is important, because you are human. I rock climb, ski, read and cuddle with the 80lb hound that lives on my couch.
I do my job and most the time I'm actually helping people get better. That feels good. There are a lot of uncontrollable factors though like POAs who want their 94 year old mother full code when she is legitimately passing on and the younger sibling who disagrees or the fist fight that happens in the hospital hallway over it. Yes, that has happened. Other things are what Cabinbuilder mentioned. Other things involve lack of insurance for legitimately sick frequent fliers like the repeat offender DKA patient who kept coming in not because he wasn't compliant but that he couldn't literally afford the medications.
One of our attendings realized this and now he goes to his office for medicine pro bono. There are kind people in this field. We get into it because some part of us is altruistic. We are fighting a system that doesn't really care about that part though and that is frustrating. I do it because when you have the good days they can be just as good as that bad day I posted. Knowing though that this is what medicine is I think is what is important to realize. It is an uphill battle to actually give good quality care sometimes and people who want to enter this field should at least be aware of that.
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