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Self-Sacrifice & Subjugation — The Perfect Doctor Trap (Schema Part 3): Episode 230
Why is it that the most compassionate, reliable doctors are so often the ones quietly disappearing on the inside? In this episode, we continue our series on early maladaptive schemas in medicine, digging into two patterns that show up constantly in physician culture: self-sacrifice ("other people's needs matter more than mine") and subjugation ("I don't have permission to say no").
Together, these two schemas create "the perfect doctor trap" — the physician everyone can count on, who stays late, skips meals, absorbs everyone else's stress, and rarely asks what they actually need. In this…
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