Do Doctors Really Care about their Patients?
In various modalities of training over the years, I have been instructed not to get too involved with people and their problems. The admonition is: don’t become enmeshed with the issues of others. There are a host of reasons for such words of caution. I am fully aware that individuals in people helping professionals will suffer from burn out if they fail to erect meaningful boundaries. But there is a flipside to this issue that is not referenced as often…