“The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training” to “protect our culture,” while they simultaneously paid $2 million a year for Dr. Porter to destroy it. It was a laughable facade, but instead I wanted to cry.” ActionFictionDramaStressPersonal GrowthThrillerRealisticStrifeFamily Life Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“You understand that you are being manipulated by others and you become overwhelmed by hospital bureaucracy. It feels as though you have been violated by administrators who have robbed you of your passion for helping children. That passion that drove you to become a healthcare provider is replaced with mistrust, negativity, and hopeless skepticism.” FictionDramaStressPersonal GrowthThrillerRealisticStrifeFamily LifeHospitalRe Building Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,” which would come to be regurgitated with great regularity by hospital administration and by Dr. Kowatch, would eventually evolve to become what I would describe as an unhealthy infatuation, one that I now understand represented the developing disconnect between the majority of the Heart Center team and hospital administration, which would ultimately have detrimental effects on the program, which would become visible to all in the near future.” ActionHumourDramaEmotionsHealthcareDedicationBurnoutChildren S HospitalIcu Setting Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“It was awful and so surreal to see it unfold before my eyes. I will never forget that sight. The only thing I could think of is that one day you are king of your domain, and the next day you are being escorted to your car by security.” RelationshipsDramaStressPersonal GrowthTraumaThrillerHospitalRe Building Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?” ActionRelationshipsHumourDramaStressTraumaHealthcareBurnoutChildren S HospitalIcu Setting Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out