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No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. One of our associate editors, Mike Gotway, emailed me an editorial titled “Burnout versus Moral Injury and the Importance of Distinguishing Them” from Radiographics authored by Sara Sheikhbahaei and colleagues (1). It is well worth reading the full text. However, since Radiographics is not an open access journal and the full text is not available to everyone, I will do my best to summarize Sheikhbahaei’s editorial and expand where appropriate. Nearly every journal (including the SWJPCCS) has published an article and/or editorial on physician burnout. Sheikhbahaei (1) points out that physician burnout is different than moral injury. She uses Talbot and Dean’s (2) definition of burnout as “a pattern of exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased productivity often accompanied by anxiety, cognitive impairment, and diminished functional capacity”. Her editorial points out that “the consequences of burnout are serious and include depression, stress, increased risk of substance abuse, poor self-image, lack of motivation …

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