In this article we will demonstrate why the epidemic of physician burnout is the single largest negative influence on your organization’s culture, performance and profitability.

We will then show you a promising four part intervention that can lower burnout rates and create a culture of support and engagement.

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The prevalence of physician burnout

The prevalence of physician burnout has been exhaustively studied in all major specialties and in most first world nations over the last three decades. Here is a telling quote from one of the key researchers:

Body Scan Guided Imagery - listen or download

One of the challenges for physicians when we are off work ... is to turn the Doctor completely off ... let it all go and come all the way home.

Really, how often do you find yourself physically at home yet your mind is still fighting the demons in your practice - labs, paperwork, patients, production ... ?

When that happens you can't begin to recharge. Your worries are still draining you despite the fact that the office or hospital is miles away.

What would it be like to relax completely like this baby or this bulldog - really let it all go? When you come all the way home, leaving thoughts of work at work, only then can you begin to make deposits in your energy accounts.

Guided Imagery is a great way to unplug completely

The Body Scan is a virtual whole body massage - listen or download this MP3 below

Prevent Physician Burnout with our five-part EMR & Documentation Strategy - Video Training

Any time you survey physicians on the workplace stresses that are causing physician burnout - EMR / EHR and documentation chores (Patient Portal, InBox/Basket) will be listed as one of the top three stressors. This happens for obvious reasons.

1) You were taught to diagnose and treat disease and take care of patients - not hunt and peck at a keyboard. You were never meant to be a master of data entry and fancy keystrokes, but somehow this has become a critically important aspect of your job. 

2) You think EMR is a Problem. It is not. It is another example of a Dilemma. Watch this video first to understand this fundamental distinction.

What you need is a Strategy to deal with your own personal EMR and Documentation challenges.

Watch the following video for our five-part EMR Strategy.

Implement any one of these this week and you will be getting home sooner before the weekend.

Physician Burnout is NOT a Problem - Video Training

Burnout is Not A Problem
That means there Is No Solution

This is the fundamental reason burnout appears to be insoluble / unfixable / you just can't make it go away. 

Understanding the difference between:

• a PROBLEM and a DILEMMA
• a SOLUTION and a STRATEGY

is key to you preventing burnout for you and your people

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Watch this video to learn how to deal with a Dilemma - so you can stop the magical thinking that physician burnout can be solved in a single step.

The Relationship Between Physician Burnout, Stress and Performance - Video Training

In the Burnout Proof Live Training I always field the question, "Isn't stress a good thing too?". Here's the answer ...

It depends

Stress can motivate or destroy performance. It can drive a physician to do the best for their patients becoming the personification of the Hippocratic Oath ... or leave them curled on the floor in the fetal position too burned out to take another step. It does all of these things depending on where you are on the Stress vs. Performance Curve.

What makes a high quality Healthcare Administrator?

Let me show you the Three Commandments a Healthcare Administrator must follow to do a good job. They were buried in a recent online article and we believe they are vitally important principles to every healthcare delivery organization going forward.

These three principles are so simple, so powerful and so often consistently ignored. They apply equally to all physicians leaders.

Let's set the stage 

Let's start with three dynamics governing the relationship between physicians and administrators inside any healthcare delivery organization.

1) All good things flow from the physicians in the system

• ALL income
• ALL quality medical decisions regarding care for the patients
• The very reason the organization exists in the first place ... caring for patients ... is performed and/or coordinated by the orders of physicians

It ALL flows from the doctors.

So it would make sense that a healthcare delivery organization would hire a group of the highest quality physicians and maintain a superb working relationship with them at all times. Yes?

2) Healthcare is a business. We need administrators.

Is this an appropriate response to physician burnout in GP's in the British NHS?

The National Health Service is a classic toxic work environment for GP's - with an administration that is singularly out to lunch.

The NHS could recognize the scope of the problem and the importance of GP health to the quality of the service they provide to the nation ... but no. As physician burnout runs rampant in practices and news headlines across the land ... they double down on blaming the victim.

Now the Doncaster Local Medical Committee (LMC) has installed a web page where GP's can report each other to the authorities for symptoms of burnout

Oh My God ... what a slippery slope.

The Four Causes of Physician Burnout - Video Training

In my work with  hundreds of overstressed and burned out physicians I have discovered four main sources of the stress that causes physician burnout.

Even though we added a fifth cause to the list just recently, these four main sources are the ones you really have to watch out for.

ln the video training below I will show you these four distinct patterns - together they reveal the core causes of the modern physician burnout epidemic.

The world's first Physician Burnout Prevention Mobile APP 

What if you could have all the following at your fingertips 24/7

• Short video trainings on the causes of burnout - so you can fill the hole in your medical education
• Short video trainings on our top 14 burnout prevention tools
• Audios for sitting and walking meditation (3, 5 and 10 minutes long)
• Instant relaxation with guided imagery audios - body scan, magic bubble, the lake, the garden and more
• Handouts for 11 of the training videos that turn them into mini trainings for your entire team

That's exactly what we have packed into our Burnout Proof Mobile APP

Physician Burnout - Avoiding the Frog in the Pot Syndrome

You have heard the "frog in the pot" story ... yes?

• If you drop a frog in boiling water, it jumps out
• If you put a frog in cool water and heat it slowly, pretty soon you have a dead frog in a boiling pot of water

It works the same way for many over stressed physicians.

Here is how you know YOU are a frog in a boiling pot (and three ways to prevent it in the future)