Burnout is now officially recognized as a medical condition. Here are the symptoms you should know about.

• Burnout (exhaustion due to chronic workplace stress) has been defined by the WHO as a clinical syndrome.
• Cases of burnout have been increasing at an alarming rate over the years, and the new classification is bringing attention to workplace stress.
• Doctors are among high-stress professions that experience burnout twice as often as the average American worker.
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If you've ever had an ache somewhere in the back of your head at the end of a long workday, or you sometimes lose the ability to concentrate after too many hours at your desk, you've likely had a case of burnout— and you're not the only one.

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