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September 5, 2025Open Access

From Fatigue to Fitness: A Physician’s Perspective

Key Points

Managing fatigue is crucial for optimal decision-making in healthcare settings, affecting both physicians and patients.
Fatigue can be classified into four categories: corporeal, cognitive, communication, and compassion fatigue.
The proposed 5S model focuses on self-awareness and strengthening the healthcare system to combat fatigue effectively.
Addressing fatigue is essential for enhancing physician well-being and ultimately improving patient care.

Abstract

physician’s life. For the physician, fatigue is a multifactorialand multifaceted syndrome. This affects their own health,and that of their patients. Decisions taken during a state offatigue may be suboptimal, and may lead to undesirableoutcomes. We classify fatigue as the 4 Cs – corporeal(bodily), cognitive, communication (vocal) and compassionfatigue. We suggest a simple 5S model to prevent andmanage fatigue – Self-awareness, Strengthening oneself,Strengthening the health care system/team, as well asimproving Scheduling/Staggering one’s workload, whilemodifying the Style and strategy of working.Keywords: Fatigue, Tiredness, Self awareness

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