Christopher Johnson M.D. PICU Author

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  • On physician burnout in pediatric intensive care

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    I have a colleague who has lost his capacity to continue practicing pediatric critical care medicine. It didn’t happen suddenly; it came on gradually over a year or so. It also didn’t follow from a single event or bad experience. It was just a creeping uneasiness that culminated in his unwillingness, after two decades, to…

  • Physician burn-out

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    Christopher
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    I have a colleague who has lost his nerve to continue practicing critical care medicine. It didn’t happen suddenly; it came on gradually over a year or so. It also didn’t follow from a single event or bad experience. It was just a creeping uneasiness that culminated in his unwillingness, after two decades, to go…