Last week I sent a survey to the Physician Leaders on our mailing list, asking personal questions about your values, goals, stresses and satisfaction with your leadership role.

Here are the responses of 22 who responded - offering us a first-person perspective on what it's like to be a physician leader in these challenging times.

WHAT DID THEY SAY?
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GIVE US YOUR RESPONSES:
Here's the link to answer the survey questions for yourself:

 

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The boomer doctor retirement cliff will decimate the US physician Workforce between now and 2030.

Learn what to watch out for - and what you must start doing now - to implement a Physician Wellness Strategy while there's still time

Watch these short outtakes from our recent Wellness Champion Summit Webinar

1) What is the Boomer Doc retirement cliff? Is it really that bad? Does AI at the same time make things better or worse?

I have some exciting news about our first Live and In-Person Personal  Wellness Retreat since 2019 ... Retreat dates are June 16 - 22, 2024. 

Our Retreat Hub sits in Kanab, Utah at a spot equidistant from three national parks

• Grand Canyon
• Bryce Canyon
[and the hoodoo forest!]
• and Zion

We will hike in a different park each day ...
and have daily short trainings to learn proven tools to ...

• get home sooner
• build life balance
• be the eye of the storm
• and build your Ideal Practice
• (19 CME/CEU's available)

And take a whole week off to rest, recharge, rejuvenate and make a bunch of new friends.

The hidden patterns in Physician Wellness

As a physician coach since 2010, I focus on helping physicians build a much better practice and become a much more effective leader.

At this point, I have been extremely fortunate to accumulate 40,000 doctors worth of coaching and training experience since 2010. It has been a rich and rewarding learning experience.

This perspective has revealed clear patterns  -- a set of habits nearly all happy, healthy physicians use to create and maintain that positive state, even in these very difficult times. Without these habits to protect your connection to Purpose as a Lightworker, physician burnout is a constant threat to you and your family. 

This is the latest in a series of posts about these Seven  Habits of Physician Wellbeing.

As working conditions in the front-lines of healthcare continue to deteriorate, you may choose to speak up to your senior leaders.

What can you say to make them take notice and do something about the overwhelm, short staffing, burnout and the digital overload of the average work day?

Do you trust yourself to talk with your CMO about these issues without losing your temper?

Let me show you a power question that actually allows you to see the future of your organization.

I have discussed physician wellness and corporate burnout prevention strategy with nearly 1000 leadership teams since 2010. Here are the strategy and questions I use in these crucial conversations.

The answer to the first question below will give you two important insights:

• Is my practice safe here in the long term?
• Will this organization survive the boomer doctor retirement cliff and still be in business in 2030?
  
  

This is Blog Post #415 - The full library is Here

I launched my website and physician coaching practice back in 2010.

Since then our team has trained and coached over 40,000 doctors to recognize, prevent and recover from burnout.

Along the way, our work has revealed what I believe to be a universal set of habits that create a state of wellbeing and satisfaction in practicing physicians - no matter what your specialty or how many hats you wear at work.

When optimizing physician wellbeing and happiness, it helps to view a doctor's life in four layers: 

LIFE <> CAREER <> PRACTICE <> JOB

Let's look at them one at a time so we can see where the typical block to a physician's happiness lies.

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Just one question and a deep breath can give you the key metric for your personal level of physician wellness.

This question is worded to ask your heart and soul to calculate the balance between ...

• The daily time and energy you devote to your job
• The meaning, purpose and impact those efforts create
• Your level of life balance
• R.O.I. - as in "is this worth all I do - and everything I have done to get here"?

All of this is bundled into the question below:

How can a one-hour training at a Medical Staff Meeting change a doctor's life?

Several times a month I meet a doctor who tells me,

"I saw you at a Medical Staff meeting (six) years ago.
I want you to know you changed my life.
I wouldn't have made it without that night and your book.
My wife/husband said I had to make sure I told you."

What a pleasure and a true honor to know that what we did together made a positive difference for that doctor's practice, their patients and their family. Wow!

And none of it was by accident.

All of our trainings are designed for immediate impact for anyone who is ready for change.

Our Quadruple Aim Blueprint Webinar
The Blueprint for your Physician Wellness Strategy
Register for the Complete Webinar Replay Video

We share our 12 year, 40,000 doctor experience preventing physician burnout and our corporate wellness strategy template.

The Webinar is Ideal For:

• Chief Wellness Officers
• Wellness Champions
• C-suite and other Senior Healthcare Leaders
• All Physicians, Staff and Administrators interested in playing a role in the Wellness Strategy going forward

If you understand WHY

- the health and wellness of your people are critical to the survival of your organization

Let us show you HOW

- to build a proactive organization-wide wellness strategy NOW

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Learn How to Design and Deploy your Organization's Wellness Strategy in our Blueprint Webinar