As a physician, you have endured many years of schooling, and you have received many A’s on your report cards. You have passed exams with flying colors, and you have pleased your higher-ups in the food chain. You have come so far, and you now find yourself in a rarefied position that most people only dream about.
So what’s standing …
Doctors: Is it time to love the F word?
Since leaving medicine, I’ve been an entrepreneur and an independent artist. They are similar pursuits, and both have taught me about the experience of living in creative rather than reactive mode.
How do you know if you’re living in reactive mode? If you define and measure yourself based on external circumstances, and you believe you really are limited by what’s happening outside yourself, you are in reactive mode. Most of our …
What doctors can learn from artists and entrepreneurs
There is a scene in the movie, The Matrix, in which the main character Neo is offered a choice between the red pill and the blue pill.
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill — the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill — you stay in Wonderland, and I …
Learning from physician burnout: Which pill will you choose?
It has been fourteen years since I graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. I have journeyed far from the field of medicine, and yet my heart keeps hearing the call to return to my physician communities and share what I have learned. I simply cannot ignore my sense that the pain within our health care system – now felt at every level, including patients, physicians, and payors — …
The gifts of burnout: An evolutionary wake-up call for doctors
As trained caring professionals, often we think of self-care as “selfish” or something that we do after we’ve taken care of our other “duties”, “responsibilities” and “obligations”.
Just for a moment, I invite you to think of self-care in a different way. I invite you to consider that your knowledge and practice of self-care is essential to creating a healing relationship with your patients and creating a healing environment in your …
5 principles of self-care for health professionals
I went to medical school and know something about what it’s like to work in clinical environments.
I’ve recently started reading blogs and articles about “physician burnout” and I can’t help but notice that there’s a lot of blame being placed on “the system”. Doesn’t this kind of storytelling just reinforce that physicians are victims? I’d like to see physicians adopt a way of thinking that will enable them to create …
Burnout is common to teaching violin and practicing medicine
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