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How compassion fatigue changes how you see patients

I keep seeing the same drug overdose patients in our ER and I am starting to feel angry at them for wasting resources when other people are waiting for care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're starting to resent the patients you're supposed to care for.

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