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## **The Creative Destruction of Physician Burnout **

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# [Stop Physician Burnout - you just don't party enough](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/stop-physician-burnout-you-just-dont-party-enough)

Posted by [Dike Drummond MD](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/author/dike-drummond-md)

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## **Stop Physician Burnout - you just do not party nearly enough**

In this post let me show you a quick, fun, powerful method to build a more supportive culture among any group of physicians - a method most groups completely ignore.

Because of the power of an active Social Calendar (partying more), this is one of the four components of our [Quadruple Aim Blueprint Strategy ](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-blueprint-white-paper-physician-leadership-consult)for Corporate Wellness.

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**Whenever I am in front of a room of 100 - 200 - 300 physicians delivering a live training, I always ask them this question ...**

> *"How many of you can look around the room and see someone you have never met before?"*

## **How many hands do you think go up?**

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**This stranger-ism - and the isolation it reflects - is a key cause of [physician burnout](https://www.thehappymd.com/blog/bid/295048/physician-burnout-why-its-not-a-fair-fight) in this modern era of larger and larger groups of employed physicians.**

- You can't build a culture of support between strangers!
- You can't feel like someone has your back when you have never met them before!
- The alone-on-your-hamster-wheel work life of the typical doctor leaves us all craving human connection -- something that most groups make only token attempts to create and maintain.
- **And it never used to be like this!**

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**Back in "the good old days" groups were smaller, owned and controlled by the doctors, with many more human-to-human connections than in today's mega-groups. **

- We knew our partners by name, by sight and by reputation.
- We even knew their spouse/partner/significant other and even their children in some cases.
- We shared human connections, liked each other (for the most part) and had a much more tribe-like feel to our collective interactions.

## **There was one reason for this - we partied together more.**

We spent more time together in social functions outside of work. We got to know each other as humans -- rather than just parallel RVU generating machines, visible to each other only as numbers on production spreadsheets distributed by administration.

**So when all those hands go up in response to my question** ... showing that everyone sees someone they have never met before ... here is the next thing out of my mouth to the crowd ...

## ***"You don't party enough!" ***

**It's true.** Many big groups have shrunk their social calendar down to a single annual Holiday Staff Meeting. That is a tragedy and a massive missed opportunity to prevent burnout among the doctors.

**These human connections are so critical to building a culture of support, these larger and more spread out groups should be partying MORE than we did in the past!**

It is why [I insist our trainings be wrapped in a social even](https://www.thehappymd.com/mediaspeaking)t - with food, drinks and all significant others invited. The social event is just as important as the tools I will teach on that evening.

Remember too -- the rapid formation of large employed doctor groups in most US cities *comes from the pooling of practices that often were in competition in the past.* There are rivalries and mistrust from days gone by to be overcome. Yet another reason to PARTY MORE to build new bonds and relationships and friendships going forward.

**Your Social Calendar is one of the Four Main Components of a Corporate Wellness Strategy. **

These human connections, forged in the heat of good parties and social events, are so critically important, we have made them one of the four components in [our Corporate Wellness Strategy we call the Quadruple Aim Blueprint.](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-blueprint-white-paper-physician-leadership-consult)

**You *must* invest in an active Social Calendar with your physicians and other providers.**

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## **Eight Keys to an Effective PARTY STRATEGY to Prevent Physician Burnout**

- Frequent get togethers and gatherings. At least quarterly. Monthly smaller group meetings are even better.
- Vary the venues and activities.
- Offer child care when you can.
- Invite partners, spouses, significant others.
- Send the invitations to the significant other at the home address on color post cards.
- Take lots of pictures of smiling faces and put them in your monthly wellness newsletter. 
- Make sure everyone knows the dates of the next three social events.
- Concentrate all of your support on the people who show up and release the absent.

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**Combine this deliberate party strategy the additional three components of our [Quadruple Aim Blueprint](https://support.thehappymd.com/quadruple-aim-blueprint-white-paper-physician-leadership-consult) -- and you will be surprised how quickly things can change.**

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## **PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT**

- Does your group party enough?
- Have you met all of the other employed physicians in your group yet?
- What was the most fun you had at an employer sponsored social event in the last year or two.

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