Why primary care burnout is really a patient-care problem

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In primary care, we are trained to care for the whole person. We consider the medical problem, the family, the work environment, the stress, the finances, and the social circumstances that shape health. Yet for a long time, there was one whole person I consistently left out of that equation: myself.
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