Do you suffer from compassion fatigue?

As Doctors, when we deal with a physical wound, what do we do?

We assess the situation. Sort out what we have to sort out. We clean it up. We dress it. We review it until it’s healed. We don’t take “the physical wound” home with us.

Same with sorting out our patient’s psychological wounds.

We assess the situation. Sort out what we have to sort out. We help our patients to “clean it up”.  We “dress it”. We review it until it’s healed. We don’t take the “psychological wounds” home with us.