This week I begin a national tour; speaking at seven conference presentations over the next 30 days on Caregiver Burnout and Compassion Fatigue, a secondary traumatic stress condition that is impacting the lives of professional caregivers and family caregivers all around our country, and of course abroad.

I am flying from South Florida, to Tampa to Central Florida, to North Carolina, to Texas and to the Great White North. No doubt, I am only scratching a small surface of a huge pandemic problem in United States healthcare; what to do with the challenging plight of the family and professional caregiver in 2010…