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Is Resentment the Ugly Stepsister to Perfectionism? Why Challenging Patients Can Trigger Resentment in Doctors and Nursesimage of three hardboiled eggs with painted faces with different emotions

Is Resentment the Ugly Stepsister to Perfectionism? Why Challenging Patients Can Trigger Resentment in Doctors and Nurses

Published by Jennifer Lycette, MD on March 27, 2022

I have a secret. It’s one I think many physicians and nurses share. Sometimes, when I’m stretched too thin — overbooked, hungry, tired, fielding yet another appeal to an insurance company in the middle of a clinic day — I find myself momentarily resenting the patients on my schedule. As soon as this happens, I…

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The Heart Has a Back Door, and Other Lessons I Learned When I Left Medicine For a Yeardoor opening into a field

The Heart Has a Back Door, and Other Lessons I Learned When I Left Medicine For a Year

Published by Jennifer Lycette, MD on February 22, 2021

**update 12/31/21 – This essay was the most read Op-Ed on Doximity of 2021! (originally published in Doximity’s Op-Med on 2/22/21 under the title I Left Medicine For a Year. Here’s What I Learned, and Why I’m Coming Back) Before COVID-19, I left the practice of medicine for what would turn out to become an…

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