I realized today marks four years since I walked away from medicine for what would end up being a year. I didn’t have a plan. I was terrrified. But I knew I had to make a change (what would turn out to be many changes). Eventually, I figured some things out and wrote about that here:

#physicianburnout #MedMastodon #womeninmedicine #selfcompassion #changeispossible

https://jenniferlycette.com/5-lessons-learned-when-left-medicine-for-year/

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 🔓

#physicianburnout #physicianentrepreneur #PhysicianLeadership #healthcareentrepreneurship #healthcareentrepreneur #healthcareleadership

“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

#physicianburnout #PhysicianLeadership #physicianentrepreneur #HealthcareProfessionals #healthcareleadership #healthcareentrepreneur #healthcareentrepreneurship

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

RT @DIVURGENT
On this episode of The Vurge @ShaneDanaher, COO for Divurgent, hosts a roundtable discussion with Doctors @subhaairan & @evebmd around the delivery of care and how #HIT can improve it.

🎧: https://bit.ly/3pd1oBB

#PhysicianBurnout #ClinicianExpereince #DigitalAcceleration

Thank you @kevinmd for publishing my latest personal essay: The insurance denial process: one oncologist's fight against a broken system

I strive to show the reality behind the scenes for all #MedMastodon right now

#FixPriorAuth #priorauthorization #healthcare #insuranceindustry #patientsafety #patientcare #patientexperience #physicianburnout #moralinjury

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/04/the-insurance-denial-process-one-oncologists-fight-against-a-broken-system.html

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.”

https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/04/physician-burnout-solutions-should-be-focused-on-subtraction-not-addition

#physiciancoaching
#physiciancoaching
#physicianburnout

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/29-physician-specialties-ranked-by-2022-burnout-rates.html #MedMastodon #burnout #physicianburnout #toxicworkenvironments #BlackMastodon

RT @CrunchyAllergy@twitter.com

Hey @OptumRx@twitter.com and @UHC@twitter.com Why are you requiring a Peer to Peer for a #cvid #immunedeficiency #bronchiectasis pt who had been on Standard of Care tx for YEARS? In the meantime, I am home playing phone tag with your awful system while febrile. This BS drives #physicianburnout

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CrunchyAllergy/status/1613626380805373952

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

RT @alikhan28@twitter.com

#physicianburnout #nurse + #hcw #burnout is not solved by yoga/gift cards.

Meaning, purpose, structural change + demonstrated community impact - that's ⁦the ⁦@OakStreetHealth@twitter.com⁩ wellness thesis, w the indomitable ⁦@DebEdberg@twitter.com⁩ at the helm! 👏🏽 https://investors.oakstreethealth.com/news/news-details/2023/Oak-Street-Health-Appoints-First-Chief-Wellness-Officer/default.aspx

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alikhan28/status/1611362470563831808

Thank you @kevinmd for publishing my latest #blog post

#MedMastodon #AIArt #OpenAI #ChatGPT #blogging #burnout #PhysicianBurnout #healthcare #HealthcareBurnout #WritingCommunity

I used OpenAI to generate art on healthcare burnout. The images were startlingly moving

https://www.kevinmd.com/2022/12/i-used-openai-to-generate-art-on-health-care-burnout-the-images-were-startlingly-moving.html

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

Took the day off ( I work 6 days a week) … The work phone sending mass texts because there is so much demand for telemedicine (because nobody is wearing masks) that they need help . Me in my #Xmas spirit
#physicianburnout #wearmask
##covid #flu #RSV #mask

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

#physicianburnout #physician #physicians #anesthesialife #anesthesiologist

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

#physician #gastroenterology #physicianburnout #nutrition #exercise

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

#physician #gastroenterology #physicianburnout #nutrition #exercise

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.

#healthcare
#physicianburnout

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

#graydrinking #sobriety #physicianburnout #burnout