How empathy can lead to burnout, with author Dr Yumiko Kadota | The Drum 

I lived with a nurse manager and whenever a situation arose like this she'd say "His balls got in the way".

@@UberNoodle yes and it wasn’t after WW1 and men started reacting and crying and ‘behaving like women’ and then people started to realise trauma and hysteria is not exclusively a woman’s domain

It's that "I'm your god and you either worship me or die" attitude because they practice so many years they become arrogant because what would you do to them ? You need them , they don't need you. And their oath means absolutely nothing to them nowadays. Until they're kept accountable for their actions , nothing will change, and it's the same everywhere , doctor cover their backs to each other so if they f-up they are not even punished accordingly.

While I agree that employers and government agencies should take responsibility it is an over simplification to say it is only a result of exploitation. Plenty of self-employed individuals face burn out and it effects such a broad variety of people and professions.

@@drillhex4471 self employed people can be exploited. This can be seen in RU-vid culture where even though a RU-vidr is self employed the culture created by consumers around constant publishing of content to stay relevant forces them to work more then they would like to, which is literally them being exploited by the market.

@@drillhex4471 it’s all about wording burn out puts the emphasis of responsibility on the individual without looking at the exploitation said individual is going through by the government, corporations, the market, societal expectations etc that has led them to feeling so worn out.

@@ethand6260 I see where you are coming from. It's definitely an unnatural symptom of unhealthy culture towards work. Even if it's not inforced by an external individual those toxic, societally inforced expectations play a huge role on our internal experiences.

Perhaps the answer is that Australia needs to accept more students into medical school each year so that Australia ends up having more doctors. Of course greatly increasing the supply of doctors will put downward pressure on their pay. Would doctors be ok with that? Or would they be against training many more people to become doctors? (And no I don’t personally want to be a doctor)

Agree, 1000%! I didn't have a doctor I liked until I was 23. Three of the worst experiences I had with male doctors were, when I was in my 20s, a pudgy fingered urologist, who was arrogant, and who, when he asked me my height and I answered in centimetres, said, "Talk in English!" He also had no tact and did not understand, or didn't want to understand that if you need to do a prostate exam, you ALWAYS ask for consent! He also told me I had a UTI when in actual fact it was a weak bladder! Another experience was with a male doctor who claims to have had depression, and all right, I only saw him because my mother pressured me to and she wouldn't take no for an answer even though I nearly exploded because she asked me FIVE TIMES if I wanted to see this doctor and I said no FIVE TIMES but she persisted. I didn't expect to be impressed and I wasn't. His manner was condescending and patronising and the medication he gave me that he said would have me noticing a difference within the next day, was actually a negative difference (head spins, dizziness and nausea). My mother said I should have gone back to see him straightaway and I said, "No, one experience was bad enough!" And the other one was when I was 12 and my mother forced me to see a doctor she knew jolly well I didn't like. I didn't like the fact that he had a really Ocker attitude and was condescending (i.e. said, with the tongue depressor, "Sticks, sticks, don't you like sticks?" in a Paul Hogan voice) and his methods rough. I couldn't communicate that the way he was conducting the exam was hurting not the area. And, as a teenager with acne, to have him point it out, was, to me, as bad as a bully making a smart arse remark. The way to do it is, you wait until the teenager asks you and then you say, "Okay, do people give you a hard time about it?" "Yes." "Okay, well, I might be able to suggest something that can help you." You do NOT straight out offer it.

that's sexist.

Have you written your book yet?

chemo hell??

Good way to get the point across. That's true and not fair to many others that work just as hard . Thanks mate.

U DIDNT HAVE TO INLCUDE GENDER BUDDY

EXACTLY! Given the statistical dearth of female surgeons, how could one NOT be surprised (and delighted!). I have learned to mask all emotion in dealing with humans now at the risk of offending snowflakes and the self absorbed.

HA! Subtle? Well played.

then the "white privilege" card gets played

@@Obliv69 just another day in the ABC attacking white males.

@@bazbbeeb7226, no, the ABC telling the truth!

@@peterwynn2169 not being a white male you wouldnt have a damn clue.

What did you expect from Aunty ABC?

junior doctors who do these on calls are absolutely not on this kind of pay.

Most Australian’s would prefer a well rested doctor treating them. Rather than paying doctors more, let’s double the amount of people admitted in medical school to become doctors. The increased supply of doctors would mean they could be paid less too.

@@JamielDeAbrew Reasonable hours of work is what is required so yes more graduates would be necessary to fill shifts.

@@JamielDeAbrew there are already too many students and therefore graduates, the problem is training positions once you graduate to become a specialist. there is a huge bottleneck.

Have you actually done an on call as a Surgical Registrar? do you think it's safe to be working 24hr and being called repeatedly overnight, having to come in to do procedures that might take many hours, and then have to rock up at 7am for a ward round before your 8am theatre list starts? there are things that need to be fixed emergently, and most don't.

It’s more of a systemic problem.

On call calls are supposed to be emergency only. Non urgent matters get answered in the day and not at 3am

@@deekircher21 Yeah when in certain scenarios is highly subjective.

You're missing the point. Yes, being on-call means just that! I know Neighbours isn't real, but a situation that occurred on there can occur in real life. I remember, in 1986, Clive Gibbons (played by Geoff Paine) said to his brother, "You want to know why I left medicine? You want to know the real reason? Okay, I'll tell you." He was a GP and a woman he cared about rang him complaining of a headache. He was busy, and he told her that he couldn't see her, and to take to aspirin and go to bed. She died that night of a bleed on the brain! Neither extreme is right. What should be done is, on-call work should be shared. But just think about THIS for a minute. I remember, when I was at school, some kids would always complain about one teacher over a trivial matter, and in one case, it was about a girl who wanted to go to the toilet and the teacher said no. The teacher who heard the complaint said, "I hear you complain all the time. But did you ever think that he might have been frazzled, or might have been trying to do something important and this was the umpteenth interruption?" I did see that that teacher had a difficult class, and a few of the students were a-holes. So, imagine that you're the doctor who has been on-call for days, and you've had two do several operations, so, you need to go home, grab some dinner and grab some sleep to be refreshed for your 7AM shift, and some junior doctor rings you with something, you'd be annoyed, too!

Well then maybe you should work more

low effort troll.

@@blorp.1956 as a small business owner I will never employ another woman and many other businesses owners haven’t either for years as why to you want the trouble of employing crazy leftist feminists

nah, i want to see more women in ship building, mining, scaffolding, concreting etc in order to balance the gender workplace death and injury gap, for equality and all.

Get a life