Metro Drug Coalition (MDC) has a new position dedicated to preventing fatigue for first responders. It’s the latest effort ...

Compassion fatigue is the limit where you're no longer ... "So before you are a therapist, before you are in law enforcement, a doctor, EMT, firefighter — whatever it is — you are human." ...

Compassion fatigue involves emotional and physical exhaustion ... An emergency room doctor or EMT, on the other hand, typically has less control over the patients and situations they will deal ...

A secondary definition of compassion fatigue refers to the experience of any empathetic individual who is acutely conscious of societal needs but feels helpless to solve them. People who actively ...