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Dr. Starla Fitch has some interesting thoughts on the choosing your battles in this war:

If we’re fighting ourselves in the war against doctor burnout, then no one is going to win. We’re setting ourselves up for disappointment, for a loss. Just like the person who loses their temper in road rage, we’ve got a lose-lose situation.

The answer is not in getting the driver of the other car to change behavior. Or the person with the loaded grocery cart to change the line they are in. Or the clerk in the holiday ham store to change their attitude.

The real answer is to alter our reaction to it.

To be teflon.

Let our reaction to the things that we can’t change roll like water off a duck’s back.

So we can have the energy to meet the challenges of the things we can change.

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