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Compassion Fatigue Is A Threat to Us All

There is a new phenomenon in our health care settings. After an arduous 18 months, those on the frontline of COVID are beginning to experience a completely different form of fatigue and burnout. We are beginning to observe anger at those that have not been vaccinated and refuse to mask. Recently, Chavi Eve Karkowsky wrote about this in… Read More »

How Do We Handle Physicians Who Threaten Public Health?

Good science requires constant questioning, hypothesis generation, and a scientific approach. And an understanding that clinicians will not always agree with an accepted direction or a given policy. However, our oversight methods have failed despite our practices of monitoring physicians with practices like peer review, using licensing bodies, and ultimately the judicial system. As a result, many circumstances,… Read More »