Burnout Is Common Even In Normal Workplace Jobs

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As a psychiatrist with 30 years of experience, I still make it a habit to browse general medical journals. Over the past few years the subject of Burnout has begun popping up in these publications. The people discussed in these articles were usually doctors, nurses or others with intense, life and death jobs. Since COVID-19 this trickle of articles has turned into a flood. After looking at quite a few of…