You know the feeling. The morning started clean. By two o’clock, choosing between two reasonable antibiotic regimens feels like solving a calculus problem.

The best AI scribe study in published literature reduced physician burnout by 21%. Thirty percent of physicians were still burned out at the end of it. That number deserves more attention than it's getting - and it points to something the technology cannot fix.

One of the most overlooked drivers of physician burnout: the gradual dismissal of self.