Maureen Gibbons

3 weeks ago | kevinmd.com | Maureen Gibbons |Sara Pastoor |Kenneth Botelho |Andy Bonner

Doctors are born to serve. We say yes to the late shifts, cover for colleagues, sign up for the committee, and go the extra mile for our patients. Somewhere along the way, that instinct to serve often mutates into something sneakier: The belief that we must constantly prove our worth through more letters behind our name. I’ve seen it repeatedly. Physicians burned out in their clinical roles start looking for a way out.