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When healthcare teams avoid confronting a colleague's declining performance

Our emergency department team has this attending who everyone knows is burned out and making small but concerning judgment calls, and we all just work around him instead of addressing it directly because he's been here longer than any of us and technically he's not crossing any clear lines.

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Everyone quietly works around a burned-out colleague instead of dealing with the real problem.

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