Hope Cook is a physician assistant and can be reached at HopethePA.
For the first 12 years as a physician assistant, I thought provider burnout only happened to wusses, those better suited to working in health insurance or doctoring at a summer camp. Sure, I felt overwhelmed at times, but I planned to soldier on in clinical practice, happily serving my patients until retirement.
That was before. Before dreading Sunday nights, feeling heaviness in my gut, a tightness in my neck, and bouts …
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