TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Out of Chaos Comes a Dancing Star: Notes on Professional Burnout</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 202 LP - 203 DO - 10.3399/bjgp15X684565 VL - 65 IS - 633 AU - Ami Sweetman Y1 - 2015/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/65/633/202.2.abstract N2 - Out of Chaos Comes a Dancing Star: Notes on Professional Burnout Chris Ellis OpenBooks Press, 2014, PB, 95pp, £18, http://www.lastoutpost.info/The author of this book has a fellowship and doctorate in family medicine, and from 2005 to 2009 was associate professor of family medicine at the University of the United Arab Emirates. He is now back home, semi-retired, and doing family practice in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.The opening quote from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche sets the tone, ‘Out of chaos comes a dancing star’, which in its fuller context reads: ‘One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.’The text derives from his … ER -