PHYSICIANS: I urge you do not conflate your career and your identity.

You are not your job / practice.

The conditions of your employment and your response/reaction to them are lessons learned.

You make the meaning in those experiences and are able to stay or walk away.

Don't fall victim to this fusion and give in to despair.

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This is the *CAREPOD* - [Remember that name]

~~ described as an A.I. powered "Doctor's Office" and a "DIY Health clinic-in-a-box". It is being built, promoted and touted as the replacement for primary care doctors in the USA.
Investors love it - just finished a $100M capital raise.

What will your work day look and feel like when A.I. has eliminated your need to document, answer messages or deal with your InBox?

Isn't that what we all want ... freedom from Electronic Medical Records and all the other documentation tasks?

Yes?

For decades now, the physician's lament has been, "I just want to see patients."

A recent article, revealing the Mayo Clinic's A.I. task automation strategy, hints at a future that is screaming "be careful what you wish for".

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.

When you want to change anything about your job, practice, career or life ... and fear or uncertainty stops you ...

Your are contemplating a step that is TOO BIG.

In psychology it is called "telescoping". Here is an example.

If you wanted to walk from one rim of the Grand Canyon to the opposite rim - on the trail that goes down and through and up the other side of the gorge (it's a thing...) - you would not try to do it in a single step. You would not attempt to leap from the south rim and expect make it all the way to the north rim. It would be scary (and most likely, fatal) to make that attempt.

This is telescoping. Looking from where you are to where you want to be (like you are peering through a telescope), noticing the huge distance and giving up before you start. It's such a long way. I will never make it. 

NOTICE: If you don't try to leap the whole canyon in a single bound, there is a trail that takes you the whole way. You just have to take regular old steps, one at a time.

Telescoping is when you think about a big goal, notice the distance from where you are to where you want to be, and fear motivates you to give up. 

This fear is also a clear sign to take a different approach

That goal IS attainable.

You just can't do it in a single step

What do you think the US healthcare industry will look and feel like in 2023?

If you want to call US Healthcare a "system" today, what will that "system" look like in the year 2030 and how will it handle the healthcare needs of an older, sicker population?

With nearly everyone calling for system change and reform, "burn it to the ground" and more ... let's look at the demographics of the US Physician Workforce and imagine healthcare in 2030.

Here's my crystal ball. What is does yours look like?

I am not exactly sure WHAT will happen, and I believe I have some clarity on HOW it will go down.

[ CME link is at the bottom of this blog post ]

The Shortest Path to Healthcare Profit is also the Shortest Path to Physician Burnout.

This cartoon/meme is the most powerful way to illustrate it.

PhysiciansOnPurpose [ POP ] Podcast #74

Preventing Physician Suicide Part 2:
Reaching out to a suicidal physician colleague

Part 1 - The first-person experience of Suicidal Ideation - is here
Part 3 - Coaching a suicidal physician client - is here

Unfortunately, we cannot stop all physician suicides for two simple reasons.

• Doctors are too good at hiding their struggle and distress. Our "never show weakness" programming is so very strong.
  
  
• We know the anatomy and physiology, so doctors are very good at themselves.
  
  

What we can do is reach out to any of our colleagues who appear to be struggling.  

In this post you will learn:

~ How to recognize the signs and symptoms of burnout and suicidal ideation

~ A proven method to reach out to that friend/colleague, simply and effectively 

The end result is lives will be saved that would be lost without your caring and outreach.

PhysiciansOnPurpose [ POP ] Podcast #70

The first step in preventing physician suicide is recognizing a clear and present danger of suicide in an individual person - be that you or someone else.

This recognition comes in two parts.

First Person:
You recognize when you are in danger, step back and get support.

Second Person:
You recognize someone else is - or may be - at risk and reach out to offer support.

• In this podcast we will explore the First-Person experience of suicidal ideation, so you can understand what happens on the inside when suicide risk is high.
  
  
• In Part 2 we will explore how to recognize suicide risk in a colleague and reach out to them to offer support. 
  
  

Watch or listen as two of our coaches here at TheHappyMD.com
Pam Pappas MD and Penelope Hsu MD
... bravely share their personal experiences of suicidal ideation, so all of us can learn to recognize these symptoms and inner voices in ourselves.