When Healers Need Healing – A Case about Physician Burnout

Last month, Katja Ridderbusch, an accomplished journalist and foreign correspondent for the German newspaper “Die Welt”, a noted author and international media consultant, interviewed me about the topic of physician burnout. Over the last 10 years, I have been...
Physician Happiness and Satisfaction Study

Physician Happiness and Satisfaction Study

Physician Happiness Study and what you can do with it Last week the 2015 Great American Physician Survey, sponsored by Kareo, revealed a new statistic on physician happiness. In this study, they interviewed 1001 physicians where the majority was male (58.7%) and...
How You Can Stop Annoyance or Frustrations Quickly

How You Can Stop Annoyance or Frustrations Quickly

Are you feeling frustrated or annoyed more frequently? Feeling frustration or annoyance frequently can be a major energy drainer in your life. It sucks everything out of you and many times it is hard to recover from this setback. Here is a neuroscientific trick that...
How Do You Handle Complaints?

How Do You Handle Complaints?

On Tuesday, while I was waiting for a client in a hospital cafeteria, I overheard a conversation between two physicians who were talking about their frustration with their office manager. Sitting close by I couldn’t help but notice how much time, strong feelings, and...
Long-term Stress Destroys Physicians

Long-term Stress Destroys Physicians

Just a couple of days ago I had an interesting conversation with a physician who is so stressed out right now that she became very emotional as soon as I asked her some clarifying questions. As a physician you have been trained to work through stress and accept stress...

If You Tolerate It, It Burns You Out

When you first practiced medicine did you feel stress during your first major procedure or an emergency situation where the life of a patient depended on you? I am sure you did, most people experience stress when they do something new the very first time or when...