A story from a physician ’s journey to burnout

An excerpt from The Flame Broiled Doctor: From Boyhood to Burnout in Medicine.
“So what did my bloodwork show, Doctor?” asked Liz. Liz was friendly and polite, but a textbook example of the Worried Well … healthy but neurotic patients I didn’t need to see as often as I did.
“Nothing, my dear,” I said. “Thyroid is fine; blood count is fine. Even the X-ray we took of your chest was fine.”
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/franklin-warsh" rel="tag" > Franklin Warsh, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs