Frases y Reflexiones

Burnout is the fourth time you hit your alarm going off at 4 am and you just can’t get out of bed. 

Burnout is walking straight out of the hospital when your shift ends even though you see a patient’s family member crying in the hall and you don’t stop. 

Burnout is snapping at a colleague, yelling at a nurse, or tossing an instrument back down on a tray in a huff. 

Burnout is walking out of a patient’s room and deciding you don’t care about their health either, since clearly they don’t. 

Burnout is hanging up with a consulting service and calling the other doctor a moron. 

Burnout is wondering if there is any way you could quit this life and pick a different job. 

Burnout is coming home and not kissing the people you love and walking straight to the bedroom to strip down and get in the shower or to the kitchen to pour a drink or to the couch to forget it all. 

Burnout is calling out sick to work because you can’t do it one more day. 

Burnout is fatalism. Burnout is exhaustion. Burnout is tears or screaming or silence. 

The truth is that everyone in medicine experiences burnout in one form or another at least once during their career. You go to work and you give 110% of yourself. 

You give until you’re exhausted and you can’t do it anymore–and that’s when we have to fall back on the things that sustain us. 

And so, recovery is Sunday morning brunch with a friend you haven’t seen in a year. 

Recovery is date night and two glasses of wine and entwined fingers. 

Recovery is a hug from your mom when she whispers she’s proud of you. 

Recovery is a hard run where your lungs burn and your muscles ache.

Recovery is windows down and music up.

Recovery is a text message from your brother with a memory from childhood you had forgotten.  

Recovery is spontaneous 10pm baking sessions. 

Recovery is your favorite book and a cup of tea

Recovery is your dad’s worst dad joke. 

Recovery is taking the time for yourself and taking time for the people you love the most. 

»swofehuper« by richard tipping (+)

She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-Germanic words meaning ‘that/there’. He as a word evolved from the same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for ‘this/here’. Your idea of “patriarchal language” further falls apart when you compare this part of English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the words in German for he and she are “er” and “sie”, completely unrelated. So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the words “he” and “she” in English have similar form. 

Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this one. Man did not used to mean “male”, man used to mean “humanity/human being”, the old words in Old English for male adult person and female adult person were “werman” and “wifman” respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as being the remnants of the base “wer-” and the base “wif-”. Woman evolved phonologically from the word “wifman” by natural processes where the ‘f’ sound dropped and the ‘i’ became lax. Man dropped its “wer” stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have nothing to do with “patriarchy” because phonological change has no basis in that.

Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two completely different words. Male comes from Old French “masle” which meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well “femella” which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she, where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as such.

Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-European “ghomon” which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for “man” in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of.

Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at this point. Person derives from “persona” from Latin which meant the same meaning, which ultimately derived from “phersu” Etruscan for ‘mask’ as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks to give identity to the performers. So never once did “person” have any meaning to do with “son”. So yes, this IS the “natural order” or language.