How do you avoid burnout? - M3 interested in EM, but wary about longevity & toll of the unpleasant aspects

I was a scribe in a community ED for one year before matriculating to an osteopathic medical school. So far during my third year, I've been thinking a lot more about longevity in a few different specialties that interest me, namely emergency medicine, anesthesiology, and perhaps even neurology. As it stands, based off my own reading of this thread, reddit, and other sources, it seems that burnout is more prevalent in EM than perhaps any other specialty outside of general surgery. It has me... How do you avoid burnout? - M3 interested in EM, but wary about longevity & toll of the unpleasant aspects
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