Stop blaming younger doctors for "not working hard enough" - the system changed, and they adapted.
This conversation flips the usual burnout narrative on its head, and it gets uncomfortable fast.
If you've felt the space to do good work shrink year after year, you'll hear why that isn't a personal failure.
You'll see how younger physicians are responding rationally to a system that keeps adding hoops, hurdles, and administrative work.
And you'll learn why protecting boundaries is not laziness - it's self-defense when the job will not protect them for you.
The biggest shift is realizing what's actually being taken away from patient care, minute by minute, form by form.
Because when more time goes to admin, less time goes to medicine, and the work feels less rewarding.
That's the real tradeoff driving the change in work ethic you think you're seeing.
If the system keeps narrowing the space to do good work, what boundaries would you set to stay in the profession?
Palliative care physician and certified physician development coach Christie Mulholland discusses her article "5 things health care must stop doing to improve physician well-being."
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