Should healthcare workers face consequences when a patient dies due to burn out?

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Healthcare workers notoriously suffer from burn out. Occasionally, their burn out causes a death.

examples might be:

A doctor who takes the easy way out instead of the right way out, a doctor who lets a patient leave AMA without trying to convince them to stay. A nurse who fakes treatments because they're overworked and overtired. A doctor who doesn't accurately portray the possibilities of a medical procedure due to lack of time or just not feeling it was important to share that information. A doctor/nurse who doesn't take a patients symptom seriously, etc. i

This is in no way meant to insult healthcare workers! I was a veterinary nurse for a decade at emergency rooms so I understand burn out. We faced it too! It's very easy to before apathetic and stop looking at patients like living breathing things and look at them as a diagnosis.

I just want to know how people feel about healthcare burn out. Should they face consequences or punishment if someone dies? How can we prevent it? And what can we do as patients and patient advocates to make sure our loved ones and ourselves don't fall victim to these types of things.

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