❌ Myth: "Emotional exhaustion is the most dangerous dimension of burnout"

✅ Reality: Depersonalization is the dimension MOST strongly linked to medical errors

When nurses start referring to patients as "the hip in room 6" or saying "they're all going to die anyway" — that's depersonalization.

29-83% of nurses experience it. It erodes clinical judgment and compassion simultaneously.

Exhaustion makes you tired. Depersonalization makes you dangerous.