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Both frameworks assume that distress follows from a known right action being blocked or a value betrayed. Some of the distress of clinical work has a third structure: clinicians are sometimes troubled not because a value has been lost but because several legitimate goods make claims that cannot all be met, so a defensible choice may still leave a genuine good unrealised. Neither existing framework names this structure, and medicine has no vocabulary for the remainder it leaves.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Aims and Objectives<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To distinguish this third structure from burnout, moral distress and moral injury; to establish the sense in which such situations are properly called tragic; to name and define the capacity that allows them to be carried; and to identify the personal and structural conditions on which that capacity depends.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Conceptual analysis. The argument draws on the philosophical literature on moral dilemmas and moral remainder, principally Marcus, Williams, Gowans, Hursthouse, Tessman, Nussbaum and MacIntyre, and reads it against the empirical and professional literature on clinician distress.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Situations in which genuine goods conflict are tragic in the technical sense that literature has established, a structural claim about conflicting goods rather than about catastrophe or flawed character. What sustains a clinician through them is a developable capacity here called\n                      <jats:italic>tragic competence<\/jats:italic>\n                      : the ability to choose among competing goods, register any remainder honestly, and remain a recognisable self in the carrying. Its failure modes are collapse and armour, the latter suggesting that some of what burnout instruments measure as depersonalisation is a defence against tragic awareness rather than fatigue. Whether the capacity holds depends jointly on a personal condition and a structural one, the clinician's agency over the conditions of care. The claim is contributory, not exclusive: conflict among goods is general to moral life, unevenly distributed across clinical specialties, and operates alongside the recognised drivers of distress. What is distinctive is not medicine's exposure to this structure but its unpreparedness for it.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Recognising this third structure helps explain why clinicians in identical conditions diverge, and directs prevention away from individual coping toward professional formation and the protection of clinical agency. It also carries a concrete curricular implication: that clinicians be taught value pluralism and moral remainder alongside the principlist apparatus of medical ethics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/jep.70611","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]],"date-time":"2026-10-07T14:17:56Z","timestamp":1791382676000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Tragic Competence: A Third Structure in Physician Distress"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"32","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4077-9269","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"J\u00f6rg","family":"Strobel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Barossa Hills Fleurieu LHN, SA Health Adelaide South Australia Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_14_2_1","volume-title":"National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students","author":"Beyond Blue","year":"2013"},{"issue":"6","key":"e_1_2_14_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"516","DOI":"10.1111\/joim.12752","article-title":"Physician Burnout: Contributors, Consequences and Solutions","volume":"283","author":"West C. 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