| Dosage | One (1) formal conversation with a manager, a therapist, or a physician acknowledging the current state and requesting structural change — not a long weekend |
| Frequency | Once; the conversation is the treatment's start |
| Duration | Until the structure changes, not until the mood lifts |
| Refills | Unlimited — a physician with actual credentials would be more useful than our paperwork. Burnout at this level is a medical condition; a sabbatical delays it, it does not treat it. |
The Institute dispenses Pausatio Extrema for:
Pausatio Extrema is part of the Institute Pharmacy's formulary of satirical prescriptions. Everything on this slip is fictional except the behavior it addresses. A real pharmacist, handed this slip, would decline to fill it. Patients are invited to fill it themselves.
Patients know it in practice as Extreme Pause, professionally required — the Latin is ceremonial; the English form is what they actually execute.
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