Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.

I'm Ashley Melttight.

This time, a lot of us have at least one female doctor.

In some ways, their working lives sound quite familiar.

I think we look at other women and we judge ourselves based on how they are doing. And so we see this little iceberg of their lives

and we say, are we as doing as good a job as they are? But the job has challenges most of us won't have to

face at work. You don't necessarily show that emotion.

And so that's how I carried on most of the time.

And most of the time that worked, you know, 90% of the time that worked.

And then every so often, terrible things happen.

And you react to it.

Yeah. things happen and you react to it. At the end of 2016, I did an episode on burnout, and the reaction seemed to show this is a

problem a lot of you have experienced.

And over the last year or so, I've heard from a few doctors saying,

look, burnout is a huge problem for women physicians. Depending on which study you look at,

women doctors are burning out at twice the rate of men, and that can't be good for any of us.

A Harvard study has also shown elderly hospital patients do better under the care of women doctors.

But is that because women are throwing so much of themselves into that care, it's leaving them spent?

In this show, we're going to talk about burnout and lack of empathy in a profession that on the surface seems to be all about it.

We're going to talk about how women judge one another's success

and how they can help each other.

Robin Devine is my first guest.

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