#physicianburnout matters. Medicine can be beautiful, and brutal.
It is normalized to keep pushing past exhaustion.
It is normalized to be stoic and not embrace your humanity.
Yet, it can be isolating.
It can push you to the brink.
It comes in all forms–trauma, TRAUMA, microtrauma.
Burnout begins in med school, continues into residency, and dominates in the attending life.
Women physicians are more likely to burnout than their male counterparts.
Women are more likely to die by suicide than male physicians.
Let’s normalize the conversation of burnout.
Thank you to Sharon T McLaughlin and her vision of going from thought to immediate action!
There are several stories from women physicians who have gone through burnout.
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Sapna Shah-Haque Internal Medicine Physician

Dr. Sapna Shah-Haque, MD is a board certified Internal Medicine physician. She was born and raised in Kansas, and attended medical school at the University of Kansas [KU] School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at KU-Wichita as well. After experiencing burnout herself, and watching other physician colleagues burn out, it became a passion of hers to look into different aspects of burnout. While the system does need to change, as it is broken, this podcast is a way to reach physicians and possibly shed light on what is not an isolated situation.