Is burnout the wrong word?

An excerpt from Determined: How Burned Out Doctors Can Thrive in a Broken Medical System. Let’s address the elephant in the room. The word “burnout” has come under fire recently (pun intended). The reason is that burnout, which was first coined by German psychologist Herbert Freudenberger in the 1970s, implies to some that the mental

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