LOCUMSTORY Podcast

EPISODE 9: Recognizing and preventing physician burnout, with TheHappyMD, Dr. Dike Drummond

Employee physicians are on a tilted playing field and physician burnout is the result

Why are 63% of US physicians suffering from at least one symptom of burnout as they see patients today?

How did we get to this point where you are more likely to be burned out than not?

• Let me show you the fundamental mismatch that has caused this burnout epidemic
  
  
• And four questions you can use to reveal the mismatch in your own practice and assess your risk of burnout.

Physician Burnout, the Enlightened CFO and the Business Case for Physician Wellbeing

If your CFO fully understood the financial impact of physician burnout, they could be your biggest C-Suite physician wellness champion. 

They could lead the Quadruple Aim charge by convincing the CEO, CMO and even the Board of Directors/Trustees to invest in the health and wellbeing of the providers. They could make a solid business case for a multifaceted return on investment (ROI) in physician wellness across the organization.

Why is this not taking place in every healthcare C-Suite on a regular basis?

In this blog post, let me show you the triple competitive advantage of physician well being and why the enlightened CFO is a key ally in our burnout prevention efforts.

A calling will exhaust you - in a good way.

When you take new actions towards your Ideal Job, you must release your old definition of Failure. 

Einstein's Insanity Trap shows the only way to get new results is to take new actions. To increase your practice satisfaction, you must take new actions at work and at home. You have to do things you have never done before. 

What if things don't work out as you planned? What if you try something new and don't get the result you expected?

Was that attempt a failure? 

Not even a little bit!!
What you did was conduct an experiment. You gathered some data in response to your new action and put yourself in the position to have a learning experience.

You can fail in this quest for your Ideal Practice, most doctors do. This failure is one of the causes of the current 63% burnout rate.

However, when you are building a more Ideal Practice, it is impossible to fail by taking new actions. 

Let's redefine failure and get started on Your Ideal Practice in this final lesson in our Take Back Your Practice series

Remember when you stood at the Lightworker's Fork

and chose to be a helper and a healer,

where did you think / feel / believe your path would lead?

Here is my PROMPT #1

"Write a sonnet in old English in the style of William Shakespeare about the first person experience of physician burnout"

Here is what it put out in less than a minute.
BTW, this is best read out loud. Go ahead and give it a shot.

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In days of yore, when learned men did strive,

To heal the sick and keep frail souls alive,

A doctor's heart, with steadfast will did quell

The mortal ills that in the flesh did dwell.

If your conscious mind is asking, "Is this what burnout feels like?" Your Little Voice already has the answer.

One of the things physicians ask me on our coaching Discovery Call is whether or not I think they are burned out.

They want a second opinion from a fellow doctor. That's a natural instinct and yet, my opinion is completely irrelevant in the arc of their life as a physician. The choice to change and grow has nothing to do with me or what I think or feel.

What matters is how YOU feel.

It's all about feelings. Burnout is not a rational process. It is not about ratings or scales or scores or someone else's opinion. Burnout is something you FEEL. Burnout is something your rational mind is always trying to talk you out of.  

You always have the power to build a more Ideal Practice

What varies is your ability to see this fact - especially when physician burnout has you in Survival Mode. Once you have a clear target - your Ideal Job Description ... you can line up the steps to take your practice back with your Master Plan.