Check out the brilliance of Texas Children's Chief Medical Officer Bryan Vartabedian, MD. We talk about #PhysicianBurnout and the role of #healthIT in helping to improve the situation. Plus, we discuss how important "sub-optimization" can be in healthcare. https://www.nordicglobal.com/blog/designing-for-health-interview-with-bryan-vartabedian
Understanding dental and physician burnout
Seema Desai is a dentist and life coach.
https://youtube.com/shorts/QLN-gsOd_iQ?feature=share
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
physiciansvoice Physician's Voice believes that doctors need to be heard in order to bring about change in healthcare.
Your feedback, regular and anonymous, allows your workplace or employer to hear the truth. When more physicians speak up, they will listen. Your voice matters!
#quadrupleaim #joyinmedicine #physicianhealth#physicianwellbeing #physicianburnout#burnoutprevention #doctorsarehumantoo #medStudentwellbeing #residentwellbeing #physicianwellnessmatters #wellness #wellbeing
Overcoming physician inbox fatigue
Scott Abramson is a neurologist.
https://youtube.com/shorts/r3NCxdT6NWg?feature=share
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
“The benefit of PRN employment for the employer”
#Healthcareentrepreneurs work with employees asking to go PRN. PRN is an employee status in that can benefit the employER. Let’s see how by using ABC, FC, VC, & capacity costs.
https://sites.google.com/view/medfinventures/costs-customers/prn-employment-benefits
Weekend learning:
Strategies to make entrepreneurial decisions.
MedFinVentures.org explores strategies to help #healthcareentrepreneurs make decisions by:
- Influence
- NPV
- Judo strategy
- Monty Hall strategy (live soon)
Find them under the *Labor & Decisions section 
“Decisions by Judo strategy”
What happens when you're presented with an unexpected term for what seems to be a routine deal? Let's use the Judo strategy to determine how (sub)optimal the term is.
https://sites.google.com/view/medfinventures/labor-decisions/decision-by-judo
Physicians struggling with burnout seek change in contract renewals
#PhysicianBurnout #WorkLifeBalance #SeekingChange
Dennis Hursh is a veteran attorney with over 40 years of experience in health law. He is founder, Physician Agreements Health Law, which offers a fixed fee review of physician employment agreements to protect physicians in one of the biggest transactions of their careers.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Du7eru3xOw0?feature=share
Link in bio or visit kevinmd.com/podcast
I completely agree with this statement.
“After this research and my own challenges with burnout, I have instead come to believe that resolving burnout is about subtraction, not addition. Instead of adding more beneficial chores for ourselves, we need to subtract the things which distract from our mission of helping our vulnerable patients as they seek health and combat illness.”
How do you get a better doctor schedule?
Negotiate.
The best time is before you sign.
#med #intern #medicine #physicianburnout
RT @tracyktownsend@twitter.com
Medical training takes some of the most compassionate, idealistic young people in our society and systemically crushes their spirit. It’s easy to take advantage of people who are passionate about their work, who see it as more of a calling than a job.
#MedEd #PhysicianBurnout #MentalHealth #MoralDistress
: https://twitter.com/tracyktownsend/status/1610742682665783296?s=12&t=Z_D46QinaDJ_r9jJira5Jw
My tea mug while I’m doing telemedicine to pay my debts on a holiday and patients connect to the video visit from large #christmas parties in exotic foreign destinations to get my opinion on that runny nose .
#wearmask #covid #flu #physicianburnout
Your employer will never love you as much as your family. Your family memories will always be more precious than even the biggest work success.
Absolutely do not let your employer steal your family time without paying. Don't answer after-hours work calls/emails/texts if you're not being paid. Their understaffing is not your fault. Their lack of preparation for your reasonable leisure/rest time is not your responsibility.
Medicine especially needs to hear this. #PhysicianBurnout
How to spend 10 minutes to enjoy life
Maybe you listen to something else that's stimulating. You can just do that in five or 10 minutes in the middle of your day. And it really serves to break it up, center you, and ground you back into your life and why you're even working so hard.
Allison Anderson is a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and life coach.
https://youtube.com/shorts/YIL8gb3uu1Q
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
Wake up an hour earlier
If you feel as if you don't have time for yourself and your health and your fitness, set your alarm clock an hour earlier. My nutrition and diet just cleaned up radically, and physically and mentally following that, I was a very different person.
Joseph D. Pianka is a gastroenterologist and author of It’s All in Your Head.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-szHshvoaZY
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
A personal definition of burnout
I was in a situation where I was powerless to help the people that needed me most at that given time. For the first time in my life, I wasn't able to clearly come up with the answers.
Joseph D. Pianka is a gastroenterologist and author of It’s All in Your Head.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7aZTeuNo-AI
Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast
Managerial society loves to create data to be analyzed but not utilized.
Interesting then that when you really want to understand a patient's case you read the text and talk to those involved. The narrative not the spreadsheets is where the action is.
When people don’t feel good, they find ways to feel better.
I muted feelings with the cycle of overworking and alcohol for years.
Until I’d had enough. Enough is a decision - not an amount.
Here is the story of how I quit drinking a year ago as part of building a life that I did not have to escape from.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2022/11/the-story-of-a-physician-after-a-year-sober.html
