Talbot, S. G., and W. Dean — Physicians Aren't 'Burning Out.' They're

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When Incentives Become the Moral Language

How Systems Decide For Us When Judgment No Longer Scales

Essay edition (~11–12k words)—eight institutional domains where metrics and incentives replaced judgment when coordination outran shared meaning. Distinct from When Interpretation No Longer Matters (authority without shared meaning) and The Economy We Don't Experience (lived vs aggregate narrative under compression).