Hillary Ferguson explores burnout syndrome and moral distress in intensive care practitioners.
“I am looking at the levels of increased exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy that overcome health providers who are faced with the harsh reality of working on an intensive care unit.”
The term ‘burnout’ is said to be quite intuitive as it conjures an immediate sense of what is meant by its expression. Taken literally, burnout is the act of smothering a fire by removing the necessary resources required for it to burn. In contrast, burnout experienced by humans is often a very slow and cumulative […]
Medicine is no stranger to discomfort. Whether you are a writhing patient waking up from surgery, a practitioner who must don more gear to re-enter a COVID room, or a tired resident whose pager is endlessly buzzing, you are not always pleased about your situation. It is no mystery to the general public (since the […]
