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When Healthcare Systems Turn Healing Work Into Assembly Line Labor

I'm a nurse and I went into this work to care for people but the hospital treats us like machines and patients like products and I'm losing my compassion.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The industrialization of care can gradually erode the very human qualities that made someone choose caring work in the first place.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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