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an appreciation of the psychological richness of the task hasn’t permeated medical training.
Starting from the beginning of medical school and continuing throughout training, there must be ongoing discussion about specialty choice in particular, and the emotional demands of medicine in general.
They need to think carefully about the patients they enjoy treating – the clinical puzzles they love to solve, as well as those tasks that they find too traumatic.
if we really want to help people make better career decisions we need to encourage them to think about, and inhabit, the feelings associated with their day-to-day experiences at work.
I don’t want to be overwhelmed by my work so I have no energy for a private life, when I get home.’
‘the system moves you around like a piece of equipment rather than a person’.
‘Siblings never have the same parents,’
‘Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.’
Time pressures; too many patients to see in too short a time
