• Compassion fatigue in the NHS or burnout? | Letter

    Doctors aren’t exhausted by their patients’ suffering, but by the poorly managed and overdemanding care systems in which they work, says Prof Paul GilbertYour article raises key issues about the mental wellbeing of those working in the NHS (Seven in 10 GPs in UK suffer from compassion fatigue, survey finds, 2 January). But we should be cautious of terms like “compassion fatigue”. Our research showed that it is not staff compassion that is fatigued – they would love

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