Our palliative care team keeps having these meetings where we discuss patient comfort goals, but I can tell some of us are burning out from the emotional weight and we're not supporting each other — we just focus on clinical tasks and avoid talking about how hard this work actually is.
More people experience this than they realize.
A care team is individually drowning in the accumulated grief of their work while maintaining professional distance from their shared need for emotional support.
“Where Are You with Palliative care and comfort medicine?”
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