No, you're kidding.
No, you're kidding. Absolutely no anecdotal evidence of this in medical school, residency, or practice. Nope. Don't even know why you bothered to do the study.
Granted the point that they have yet to determine whether being burned out makes you care less, or the process that results in the burn out also diminishes caring, or you start to care less and then get more burned out.
I think it's a parallel but separate question whether or not you are protected a lot, a little, or not at all from burnout by being motivated by the patient contact/social impact part of your work. It's highly improbable that any protection would be absolute, as well. Thus still leaving the issue of burnout affecting the carer and, eventually, the care itself.
I also have concerns about using language loaded with specifically christian religious tones, i.e. "calling". I know it's tossed around all the time, now, but it really specifically refers to a religious calling, which may or may not have to do with what work you do or what your vocation(s) or avocation(s) may be.
If you ask people who follow certain religious teachings if they feel "called", that is a completely different question than if someone is motivated by helping others or contributing to society or being the change they want to see in the world, etc. Shocking as it is to some, people can come to those conclusions without it having to be a religious experience. Christianity isn't the only religion with scriptural or cultural encouragement to contribute to the world or society or even one other person at a time in a positive way. Nevermind it's not the only philosophy, religious or otherwise, that suggests there's value in your fellow man and considering interests other than purely your own.
Meanwhile, I can't access the full text of the article so I can't see details of the study. They may not have used the word calling in the actual survey, it may just be them and their write up, or even just this reporting summary. Still a potential source of bias in either design, data collection, data analysis, or interpretation.
Nonetheless, I am anecdotally shocked, I tell you, that burn out makes you not care about anyone or anything too terribly much. Shocked.
https://wire.ama-assn.org/life-career/burnout-s-other-dimension-eroded-sense-medicine-calling?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=021817&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
https://wire.ama-assn.org/life-career/burnout-s-other-dimension-eroded-sense-medicine-calling?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=021817&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
Granted the point that they have yet to determine whether being burned out makes you care less, or the process that results in the burn out also diminishes caring, or you start to care less and then get more burned out.
I think it's a parallel but separate question whether or not you are protected a lot, a little, or not at all from burnout by being motivated by the patient contact/social impact part of your work. It's highly improbable that any protection would be absolute, as well. Thus still leaving the issue of burnout affecting the carer and, eventually, the care itself.
I also have concerns about using language loaded with specifically christian religious tones, i.e. "calling". I know it's tossed around all the time, now, but it really specifically refers to a religious calling, which may or may not have to do with what work you do or what your vocation(s) or avocation(s) may be.
If you ask people who follow certain religious teachings if they feel "called", that is a completely different question than if someone is motivated by helping others or contributing to society or being the change they want to see in the world, etc. Shocking as it is to some, people can come to those conclusions without it having to be a religious experience. Christianity isn't the only religion with scriptural or cultural encouragement to contribute to the world or society or even one other person at a time in a positive way. Nevermind it's not the only philosophy, religious or otherwise, that suggests there's value in your fellow man and considering interests other than purely your own.
Meanwhile, I can't access the full text of the article so I can't see details of the study. They may not have used the word calling in the actual survey, it may just be them and their write up, or even just this reporting summary. Still a potential source of bias in either design, data collection, data analysis, or interpretation.
Nonetheless, I am anecdotally shocked, I tell you, that burn out makes you not care about anyone or anything too terribly much. Shocked.
https://wire.ama-assn.org/life-career/burnout-s-other-dimension-eroded-sense-medicine-calling?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=021817&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
https://wire.ama-assn.org/life-career/burnout-s-other-dimension-eroded-sense-medicine-calling?utm_source=BulletinHealthCare&utm_medium=email&utm_term=021817&utm_content=physicians&utm_campaign=article_alert-morning_rounds_weekend
If someone had asked me if I saw medicine as a calling, I'd be lolnoing out of the survey quicker than fast. It's a damaging language, used to keep women down. Nothing to do with burnout.
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