While physical and emotional exhaustion are bound to strike, there are ways of mustering the strength to plow through.

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Research has shown that employees whose job requires them to manage their emotions (which, surely, is everyone) are more prone to emotional exhaustion and lower job satisfaction.

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The report, based on a survey of 564 GPs, found they were suffering from high levels of emotional exhaustion and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment, particularly those who repeatedly saw the same patients.

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But there is still something unsettling about Mr Adams's unusual hints of resignation, his references to physical and emotional exhaustion, and the self-pity that for a while at least appears to have displaced the old self-confidence.

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