Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
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There is an unknown hazard of life coaching:
Half your friends are life coaches
And they have awesome offerings
And you want to take them all to support your friends
But you also know you have a tendency to be busy learning, learning, learning
So you can avoid doing, doing, doing your own work
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 117 posts · Server med-mastodon.comIs disrespect at work contributing to your burnout?
Here are some ideas about what’s happening and how to change it.
"As recently as five years ago, there was an expectation of respect for the expertise and sacrifice that a physician’s work entails.
But disrespect from patients is currently at an all-time high, sometimes even escalating to physical violence from patients."
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/08/mitigating-physician-burnout-rediscovering-your-dignity.html
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 117 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
This Labor Day weekend, break your addiction to multitasking.
“This explains the attraction of multitasking: It offers the false promise that we might somehow slip the bonds of our finitude. We tell ourselves that with sufficient self-discipline, plus the right time-management tricks, we might finally get on top of everything and feel good about ourselves at last. ”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/opinion/do-one-thing-at-a-time-management.html
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 107 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Grief over the loss of my dog does still hit hard sometimes, but other times, it just is. It’s just life and its eventual end. The reality is that impermanence comes for us all.
I find I still speak of her in the present, because her memory is still so fresh and present, but the loss is accepted for what it is. No more. And no less.
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 105 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Look no further than the paintings he left behind.
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 104 posts · Server med-mastodon.comSome interesting ideas here about a specific way to combat burnout at the systems level–can value-based care save Primary Care?
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
37 followers · 101 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Be still and let the truth of the happiness in your life have a moment. Or two.
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 97 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Do you enjoy your own company?
If not, why not?
What can you do to be better company for yourself?
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 97 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Toward the conclusion of medical school, an oath is usually taken by the graduates–a symbolic commitment to their calling and a promise to guide their medical careers.
For years I had the impression that everyone either took the Hippocratic Oath or the Oath of Maimonides.
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https://www.medicalmindsconsulting.com/journal/your-own-medical-oath
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 97 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Contentment is underrated, underappreciated, and often overlooked.
Instead, we wildly chase its flashier cousins, happiness and joy, failing to notice what may be already here.
Because it is quiet contentment that brings a sense of peace and well-being, with more depth and endurance
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 97 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
Your path is shaped by many elements. It is unique to you. It may change direction and style as you do.
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 93 posts · Server med-mastodon.comThe first day of internship is uniquely memorable. I still recall what I was wearing, meeting the other interns, starting work on the floors with my new team members who were all unknown entities, living in a new city, and learning my way around the city, the hospital, and my new role.
I remember the excitement of possibilities and yet the unspoken fear of not being good enough.
What do you remember?
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/07/stepping-into-the-unknown-reflections-of-an-intern-on-july-1st.html
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 93 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
This past week, I finally made substantial progress in some home repairs pending for more than a year.
The amount of energy that resulted in finally accomplishing this surprised me and spurred even more action and planned improvements.
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
36 followers · 93 posts · Server med-mastodon.comSummer marked the start of medical school, with July being when clinical rotations commenced in the third year and when the transition to the fourth year occurred. July was when internship began, followed by each new year of residency. Fellowships began later but still in the summer.
www.medicalmindsconsulting.com/journal/informed-consent-training
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
34 followers · 90 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
“We behave like struggling actors auditioning for a big part, doing our best impressions of what we think the casting director wants. Drop the act. As a BOSS MD, you don't need someone to cast you in the big show.”
If you are looking for the lessons you didn’t learn in medical school concerning success on the nonclinical side of practicing medicine, look no further than this excellent book by my friend Amy Vertrees, MD: Become the BOSS MD: Success Beyond Residency
Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
34 followers · 89 posts · Server med-mastodon.comDoctors need to be on the front lines of the changes that need to happen in our healthcare system.
“But more and more doctors are coming to believe that the pandemic merely worsened the strain on a health care system that was already failing because it prioritizes profits over patient care.“
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/magazine/doctors-moral-crises.html?smid=tw-share
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
34 followers · 88 posts · Server med-mastodon.comI have two articles this week on doctors and moral injury. The first is a personal account. The second is a more global look at what’s been happening to the medical profession as corporate interests interfere more and more in the delivery of care.
https://www.kevinmd.com/2023/06/a-retired-physicians-battle-with-moral-injury.html
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
34 followers · 87 posts · Server med-mastodon.com
What are you doing for pleasure this weekend?
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
33 followers · 86 posts · Server med-mastodon.comThere may be some seeds in your garden that you didn’t plant or mean to plant. Seeds of discontent and burnout, born out of stress and dissatisfaction due to the pressures of our daily lives.
I believe deep-seated systemic problems plant the seeds of burnout. When we feel powerless and devoid of agency, these seeds find fertile, moist ground in which to thrive.
www.medicalmindsconsulting.com/journal/seeds-of-burnout
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Victoria Silas MD · @VictoriaMDCoach
33 followers · 84 posts · Server med-mastodon.comIn honor of Juneteenth, I’m posting this article. We still have so much work to do.
Also, in the comments, there’s a link to a YouTube video that is part of an Antiracist Animation Series
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