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When caring hurts: Attrition among social workers, medicine's unsung heroes

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Medical social workers perform many tasks for patients, but the work is taking a high toll on them, leading to burnout and attrition.YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/Shutterstock

You can tell a lot about a job and the people doing it by asking them to describe their best day at work. For Ali, a 28-year-old pediatric cancer social worker, that day occurred one...

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