I can't forget the hard candy sucking either. I wonder if anyone knows how annoying it is to hear hard candy clicking around on teeth and hearing the slurp afterwards.

Yeah, definitely don't want to be a patient with some of these doctors. If their patient care is as "good" as their dictation skills, I'd rather suffer a slow, painful death. LOL

I've already had my thyroid checked. No problems there.

It's definitely job burnout or, more specifically, particular doctor burnout.

Dream filled sleep is actually the kind you want. That's REM sleep where your brain is filing the new info you took in that day. It's when you don't dream that you aren't sleeping deeply enough for your brain to revive and you end up forgetful and not able to concentrate. I've been having really bizarre dreams this week, but I seem to need to stay in bed for 10 hours or more, and even then it's a struggle to drag myself out of bed.