Why physicians cannot rest, and what changes when they do. Roxanne Almas on physician burnout, grief, and rebuilding a practice around recovery.

Almas, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician, lost her mother to cancer in eighteen months while caring for a father with advanced Parkinson's, and returned to clinic with almost no structural processing built in. Her reframe: rest is not the reward at the end of the work, it is the work. Athletes know this. Pilots are legally required to know this. Medicine is the only high-stakes profession told to skip the storage step.

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