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The Physician's Burnout Decoder

Burnout as a relational and systemic problem.

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Annie Wright, LMFT
May 11, 2026
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A trauma-informed companion for women in medicine — the residents, attendings, and surgeons whose burnout is not a wellness problem but a relational and systemic one. Clinical, specific, and unwilling to recommend yoga as the intervention.

Inside: why medical burnout in women so frequently traces back to relational trauma rather than workload, the specific neurobiological cost of clinical detachment as a long-term coping strategy, and an evidence-based recovery framework that doesn’t require leaving medicine.

For the woman in white coat who is tired of being told to download a meditation app.

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