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What is burnout costing you? Most studies show that burned out physicians are about 10 to 15% less productive than your average physician. There are a number of studies that show that there’s increased malpractice risk, so one practice lawsuit can be $10’s or $100’s of $1000’s of dollars depending on your malpractice carrier…
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Tick, tock, tick tock…The burnout clock is running. The longer burnout goes on, the harder it is to fix because you think it becomes a normal way of life. The longer it goes on, the more of your life has gone by. The longer it goes on, the more entrenched you are. It is more…
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Are you living the life you intended? “I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended.” (Emphasis mine) ~Charles…
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Are you ready to quit your job? “When people like their lives, and that includes work life, they’ll do a better job of taking care of themselves.”~ Jeffery Pfeffer IS IT TIME TO PULL THE PLUG? Our topic today will be one that hopefully you don’t get to this point, but we’re talking…
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How to change your habits for good! “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ~John Dryden What does burnout this have to do with habits? Well about 40% of your behavior and your actions throughout the day are controlled by habitual motion or habitual process. If we’re going to talk about…
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“First Principles of Burnout” Elon Musk is a smart guy, obviously, he thought a lot about spaceships and rockets and so the first principle for him was… Why can’t we have reusable rockets and boosters? So that’s what would radically bring the cost of spaceflight down for him. For example, he likened it to the…
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“How Medical Students & Residents Avoid Burnout” I think one of the giant drivers of burnout for medical students or residents, is the fact that this it is all external. You’re required to do X, Y and Z things in medical school. You’re required as mandated to work __ number of hours as a…
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The Benefits of Practicing Gratitude Be Grateful. You may say, “How can solving all my problems be that easy? I can recover from burnout by saying thanks enough? Just be grateful? I am grateful. I say thanks to my office staff at least once a month…But I am still burned out like crazy.” Being…
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How do we take care of the caretakers who are saving our lives? -by Vince Bzdek (Originally published in “The Gazette”) Dr. Jeff Moody, a urologist, at his home in Colorado Springs in April. Studies show burnout is very high for physicians, said Moody, “and it’s up another 20% to 30% since March”…
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“How you doin’?” ~Joey Tribbiani, Friends How are YOU doing right now? Joey may have had ulterior motives when he posed this question to others, but did have his interest and intention at heart. When you are having a bad day, wouldn’t it be awesome to have someone with the heart and interest of Joey…
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