Your description of the term is accurate, but incomplete. A lot of angst goes into a nurse's decision to change practice venue. Nursing specialty areas with the highest burn out rates are those where there is infrequent opportunity to see a patient recover from illness. In the ICU, when a patient survives the critical care episode, they are promptly shipped out of the unit. Oncology units and nursing homes are permeated with poor prognoses.
As noted before, I think compassion fatigue is a reasonable description for health care provider burn out. Using compassion fatigue synonymously with secondary PTSD is crap. Using burn out, compassion fatigue or secondary PTSD as a reasonable defense for murder is incomprehensible.
"Using burn out, compassion fatigue or secondary PTSD as a reasonable defense for murder is incomprehensible"
Right, I remember the discussions about that on the threads where media and military were trying to say that hasan was acting out because of PTSD. This thread is about how hasan's terrorist action has affected "some" of the soldiers who do have ptsd. I'm not even going to argue about that because I think hasan IS a terrorist.
It is ESPECIALLY incomprehensible in Haman's case. He was a monster who over and over demonstrated the jihadist 'kill the infidel' ideology. Most likely he either phoned it in while treating those unfortunate enough to be assigned to him for care, or he just didn't give a rat's @ss about those suffering under his counsel. More likely he reveled in their psychological trauma and pain which is something we can not comprehend but anything is possible with this monster.
I would like to know how thorough he was in treating his patients. I'm sure he took it up to the line without being obvious about his intent. Sleepers are all about patience and waiting for their opportunity to strike.