A volume coordinated by Irina Zetu and Richard Constantinescu
Tired of Being Good
The Dentist's Burnout
A lucid X-ray of professional exhaustion in dental medicine — and a case for taking care of the people who, day after day, take care of everyone else.
It takes courage to speak, in a professional culture that has made resistance a virtue and vulnerability a shame, about the exhaustion of the dentist, about depression, about the risk of suicide, about the body that hurts, and about the thought, confessed by so many colleagues, of leaving the profession.
For care towards others to be sustainable, the physician must also include their own life within the field of care.
Prologue & Foreword
About the book
Tired of Being Good is more than a volume about burnout: it is a lucid X-ray of professional exhaustion and, at the same time, a case for taking care of the people who, day after day, take care of everyone else. Coordinated by Prof. Irina Zetu, PhD, and Richard Constantinescu, PhD, the volume brings together medical, psychological, psychiatric, legal, spiritual, and artistic perspectives, in a genuinely interdisciplinary approach. The book explores the causes and consequences of burnout in dental medicine, from stress, depression, and overload to its impact on the therapeutic relationship and on the quality of medical care. A particular contribution comes from its reflection on the body, on vulnerability, and on the limits of individual resilience, alongside its approach to resources for recovery such as art, music, literature, spirituality, and narrative medicine. With scientific rigor and honesty, the volume opens a necessary conversation about the health of those who provide care. It is, at heart, an invitation to change perspective: caring for the physician is not a secondary gesture, but a condition for healthy medicine. A necessary book for students, physicians, and all professionals who carry the responsibility of caring for others.
Caring for the physician is not a secondary gesture, but a condition for healthy medicine.
Contents
Six chapters, one thread
Tap each chapter for the list of essays and their authors.
The authors
25 voices, one question
Physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, theologians, and artists who each wrote, from their own vantage point, about the exhaustion of those who take care of others.
