Florence Nightingale Was the OG Work Martyr and That’s Not Healthy

Millennials could learn a thing or two about the dangers of leaving it all at the office

Betsy Denson
Smorgasbord of History
6 min readMar 18, 2024

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Florence Nightingale in a hospital.
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Many people through the ages have reached the pinnacle of their careers at great personal cost to themselves. In this decade, we call them work martyrs. If the term had existed 200 years ago, people would…

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Betsy Denson
Smorgasbord of History

Always looking for the interesting. Incurably curious. Write a new book in my head once a month. Hopefully one will cross the finish line before I'm 80.