“I reached and grabbed ahold of the garden rake that was leaned up against the tree, when suddenly I felt my heart begin to race and I began to feel dizzy as my visual field became black. That is the last thing I recall before awakening to find myself lying on the ground in the front yard, with the handle of the rake resting on my chest.” PassionHumourMedicalHelping OthersManipulationHeartfeltMedical DramaOverworkedMedical FictionHospital Bureaucracy Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“The disturbing part is that no one teaches us how to deal with death at any point during our medical training, or even during our lifetime for that matter, particularly in a field such as mine where death was an inevitable certainty for some patients.” SufferingBalanceEmotionsTraumaMedicalDedicationWellbeingHeartfeltOverworkedMedical Fiction Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“I was able to shake off the near-death experience, and whether it was true or not, I was able to use it as some sort of moral validation as to the importance of my existence, or at least the importance of me completing this job, because clearly God, the universe or whoever understood that there was no other human being alive on this earth stupid enough to take this job.” FictionHealthDoctorsMedicalRuinPatientsDomesticMedical ThrillerDomestic ThrillerMedical Fiction Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out
“When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!” ActionFictionHealthDoctorsMedicalRuinPatientsDomesticDomestic ThrillerMedical Fiction Book:Burned Out Source: Burned Out