Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Physician Burnout”
Disclosure: I am an affiliate, and make a modest commission when readers purchase the Pandemic Survival Guide for Physicians using my link. Dike Drummond, a.k.a. The Happy MD, is a Mayo-trained family physician whose personal struggle with burnout led him to leave clinical medicine in 2011 and instead pursue physician coaching and burnout prevention as his full-time vocation. Let’s go …
My experience with burnout in medicine reflected a perfect storm (a lawsuit; a toddler at home with a second child on the way; a near-denial on a home loan; and working far more than I wanted due to two years of understaffing). It led me to the path of financial literacy, which in turn set me up to become a …
The first time I heard medicine referred to as a hobby, it was by my cousin, a corporate attorney who had met her husband while he was still a medical student. He moved into her place for his final year of medical school, then she continued to support him as they started a family during his residency and then a …
A reader, Carla, inquired if I might provide some closure to the malpractice lawsuit I’ve referred to previously (see here and here for the original posts). In addition to wanting to know the ending, there’s value in reflecting on where I am now, where I was then, and how I bridged the gap. Legal Conclusion The case dragged on for …
Perspective in allopathic medicine is often (regrettably) present in homeopathic doses. This post, much like the vitamin B shot your last patient reported getting from the local Clinica Malpractica down the street, is intended to compensate for a perceived deficiency of perspective that may well be imaginary. Not What I Thought It Would Be Many of us become disillusioned with …
I was in junior high school the first time I accepted a friend’s invitation to join him in the Pacific Ocean. He’d been surfing since grade school, and agreed to lend me a spare bodyboard for our afternoon at the beach. After his mom dropped us off, he wrapped a towel around his waist and shimmied into a full length …
Vagabond MD , a radiologist and favorite guest of the blog, reached out to me with a fresh take on what I’d thought was a settled debate. He asks if rather than a state of apathy and depletion to be avoided at all costs, burnout might in reality be a painful stop on the road to defining a balanced career …
This is the second installment in a two-part guest post (you can find the first part here). The author is my friend Dr. Matt Poyner, a Canadian emergency physician who sold everything, quit his job, and is currently backpacking the world with his wife and four young sons. Over several months Matt and I have discussed burnout, purpose, family responsibilities …
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Matt Poyner, a Canadian emergency physician who sold everything, quit his job, and is currently backpacking the world with his wife and four young sons. He chronicles his adventures at Big Family, Small World and shares the investment strategy that enabled his radical experiment at DividendStrategy.ca. When a burnt out finance nerd meets a …
This is the final installment of a 2 post series. In part 1, we covered a lot of ground, including: We described the context of Dr. Slowburn’s situation. We reviewed why the common legacy exemptions to call based on years of service or age may be inadequate or create an undue burden on newer, younger physicians based on flawed assumptions …