Use Your Amazing Courage on Yourself!
Physicians and clinicians do heroic things every day for their patients but often lack the courage to fix their own broken job situations. Flex your courage today for your best good!
If you’re stressed out and burning out, you know you need to change your work situation. But fear unfailingly sets in: “What if I ask for an accommodation and my admin fires me? If I leave medicine, who will I be? How will I pay my kids’ tuition?” Once fear hijacks you, you become paralyzed. You do nothing about your stressful job situation and the burnout worsens with time.
But you know what’s funny? How courageous you are when it comes to patient care.
It takes courage to go see an angry, demanding patient. It takes courage to tell a patient they have cancer. Heck, it takes courage just to show up to work every day.
How is it that you have so much courage in your daily work, but when it comes to creating healthy work for yourself, for your best welfare, fear takes...
Burnout is Shameful. Having It Is Not.
Burnout is a logical progression, not a personal failure.
2024 will be the 50th anniversary of the term “burnout”. And despite five decades of ever-increasing awareness, the healthcare industry has utterly failed to substantially mitigate it.
Nearly half of physicians were suffering from burnout before the brutal onslaught of the worldwide pandemic, and healthcare workers as a whole are suffering in unprecedented ways since. The fact that the medical profession has remained rife with burnout for half a century and counting is shameful.
WHO listed burnout in its 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, and defined it thusly:
“Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”
Fortunately, its inclusion gave burnout a shred more legitimacy as a “real” thing, an official problem to be addressed. Unfortunately,...
