Healthcare workers face a unique combination: emotional exhaustion, moral injury, life-or-death stakes, and broken systems. Burnout here is not a personal failing — it is a predictable response to an unsustainable environment.
They can co-occur. Burnout is depletion; PTSD involves intrusive memories of specific events. Both deserve treatment.
Confidential therapy and most physician health programs do not affect licensing. The stigma is bigger than the actual risk.
Sometimes. But many clinicians find that changing setting, role, or schedule is enough. Try those first.