Diabetes care providers, including family members, friends and physicians face many professional hazards during the course of their work. Amongst these is compassion fatigue. This communication describes how one can identify compassion fatigue and its potential negative impact. It shares pragmatic ways to minimize and handle compassion fatigue, and prevent burnout in physicians.
Keywords: Burnout, Compassion fatigue, Diabetes distress, Psychosocial aspects, Physician health. “I feel so tired taking care of my husband, but he just doesn’t seem to understand my effort.” “I remain awake the whole night, worrying about my brother, and I can’t concentrate at work” “I had to cancel an outing with my friends, in order to save for my mother-in-law's insulin..