If your management can’t understand “I’m not an extravert”, they are the ones who lack empathy.

I’ve been around medical people a fair amount over the years. Nurses vary but yeah they do tend to be outgoing or at least solicitous. Doctors on the other hand are often total nerds, almost like the stereotype of programmers. Of course, being a programmer, that’s the type of doctor that I like. If you want to stay in the health field, maybe consider medical school for when you can swing it.

There is such a thing as empathy training: kffhealthnews.org/…/efforts-to-instill-empathy-am…

www.apa.org/…/feature-cultivating-empathy

wolterskluwer.com/…/how-to-show-empathy-to-patien…

www.nursingprocess.org/empathy-in-nursing.html

There is a specific article I remember from one of the KFF sites and those links came up while I searched for it. Unfortunately I didn’t find the one I was thinking of, but maybe it will turn up later. What I liked about it was that it was aimed at nerdy doctors (it was from an internal newsletter for KFF workers, though on their public site), so it was expressed in precise terms. I learned useful things from it myself.

You can find plenty more with fairly obvious web searches.