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Burnout is a spiritual crisis
On my second year-long round of burnout, I lay in bed at night as I festered in my negativity, thinking to myself, “What am I good at, what do I like to do, what am I supposed to be doing?” Little did I realize this was a spiritual crisis. …
What are your true colors?
We have probably heard this saying with different permutations many times about someone showing “their true colors.” As physician and best-selling author, Tess Gerritsen, shared: “There is no better test of character than when youR…
Want to improve your patient reviews or relationships? Learn to be present.
I recently came across an article in the Journal of Urology that was trying to understand the determinants of patient satisfaction in the outpatient setting. They surveyed 500 patients over two months and asked questions about demographics, expectation…
Shame, guilt, perfectionism and ego: a terrible combination
The levels of physician burnout which are a constellation of symptoms including feeling apathy, fatigue, depersonalization, and detachment are a group of feelings that have plagued health care. But within the last two years, burnout has exploded to upw…
