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Work Life Balance for Physicians
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Talk to Your Doctor so Your Doctor Will Listen
The most common complaint about physicians on the internet is, “They didn’t listen to me”.
You were sitting in the office and the doctor was physically present in the room, but they weren’t all there. Even worse is when the doctor doesn’t try to understand what you are going through. Sometimes it can seem like they didn’t even care. Let me give you a suggestion on how to talk to your doctor so your doctor will listen.
Tags: Dike Drummond MD, Physician Burnout, compassion fatigue, physician patient communication
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Prevent Burnout with 3 Simple Stress Relieving Games
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Burnout is a constant threat for physicians. Research consistently shows an average of 1 in 3 doctors suffering from symptomatic burnout on any given office day. In my work with over stressed and burned out doctors, I have found that most of us work way to hard being the Superhero to our staff, patients and families — and don’t have any fun at all. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Research shows you can lower your stress (and prevent burnout) with simple steps you can begin taking today. You can even make these activities into stress relieving games.
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Physician Burnout – 3 Signs and 3 Simple Prevention Steps
With all the passionate headlines and blog posts written on the health care reform debate/Obamacare, and advances in digital medicine – it is easy to overlook the fact that most healthcare is actually delivered person to person, knee to knee, from doctor to patient behind a closed exam room door.
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Physician leadership, patient flow and the critical importance of the 3 minute team huddle
How often do you find yourself putting out fires and running late in your office day? If it is more than just an occasional inconvenience … you need this simple and powerful patient flow and physician leadership tool.
Tags: Dike Drummond MD, Physician Coaching, Physician Leadership
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Physician Leadership: Power Up your Monthly Staff Meeting
How can you get your team to carry some of the load, smooth out your patient flow and make sure your systems are constantly improving?
The answer to those questions is in this week’s physician leadership video lesson.
This video focuses on how you power up your monthly staff meeting by asking 3 simple but powerful questions. You stop “giving orders” and focus on asking questions and watch your team step up and do some of the heavy lifting from now on.
Watch until the end where I show you a 2 Minute Team Venting process for those times when the group simply must let off some steam before they can focus.
NOTE:
This is just one of 48 video, audio and document resources in these Smart Phone APPs to Prevent Physician BurnoutTags: Physician Coaching, Physician Leadership
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Average Life Expectancy versus Cost of Healthcare World Average – INFOGRAPHIC
I love infographics when they actually add impact to a statistical disparity. Here is one originally published by National Geographic in 2009 showing three things.
Employed Physicians Top Four Gripes
Medscape published an article this week titled, “4 Top Complaints of Employed Doctors” and it was a very interesting read. Turns out the things employed physicians complain about are basically that they are employees! Go Figure …
Work Life Balance Keys – Anchor to a Super Habit
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