When doctors reconsider their life calling, the pressure is telling them to leave to survive

‘We hear of junior doctors being told a version of, “The hardship made me better, so you should go through it too.”’ Photograph: Liusia Voloshka/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Most health workers enter the profession with the goal of helping people, but sometimes along the way, that becomes lost just trying to survive the stresses of the job.

How can we support health workers and help them to honour that original intention?