Stop Physician Burnout: Physician Leadership Skills To Help Us Lead The Charge To Physician Wellness

Oftentimes, the terms wellness and well-being are used interchangeably.  Is there a significant difference especially in the context of physician burnout? This is expounded by Dr. Harjot Singh, a physician wellness and burnout prevention coach.  He is Assistant Medical Director in Kingsview Tele-Psychiatry services in California, a Fellow of American Psychiatric Association, and one of our coaches at TheHappyMD.com.  He shares with us his four-level system of wellbeing, namely succumbing, surviving, existing, and thriving.  Tune in on today’s episode to learn more. “Well-being is not just this weird positive thing all the time, take for example a busy life of a physician.  Every day we have a chance to do good. It's almost like we have to travel to any place else, to have that sense I did good today.”- Dr. Harjot Singh Highlights: (01:28)  The difference between wellness and well-being (02:12)  The science of well-being (04:00) Two types of well-being (04:47) The four-part scale (06:35) The jangle effect (12:23) Flow as a psychological concept (16:05) The role of vision on well-being  Resources: WHO article on mental health:  https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-health-strengthening-our-response University of Rochester articles on Burnout: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/23096820-michael-r-privitera/publications The Jangle Fallacy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001316445401400214?journalCode=epma  Connect with Dr. Harjot Singh:TheHappyMD.comLinkedin HarjotSinghMD.com Watch this episode:Youtube:  https://youtu.be/rDcJCNPnvOc Get to know more about Dr. Dike Drummond and The Happy MD:https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond We would love to hear your feedback.  Send us your review on Apple Podcasts/Itunes, or in other directories through this link: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/physicians-on-purpose-1546320Explore physician leadership tools and strategies to stop physician burnout, enhance physician wellness and give you the power of personal influence in the C-Suite. All the tools you need to play your role in leading the charge to wellness - at three levelsfor youyour teams and your entire organization.

Who doesn’t love simple and practical life hacks to beat burnout? Dr. Penelope Hsu, a New York City pediatrician and one of our coaches at TheHappyMD.com joins us in today’s episode.  She is going to share with us the five tools that she uses to help her coaching clients who are struggling with physician burnout.  These are quick, easy, and doable ways to alleviate stress in the workplace. “Sometimes all you need to do is just kind of catch a breath, take a little break.  Remember that there are some good things happening in your life and then go back to the madness. Sometimes that's the best that we can do, but at least we can do that right.”- Dr. Penelope Hsu Highlights: (02:11)  Burnout hacks in under 60 seconds (04:33) The five-point burnout toolkit (04:58) The physical tool (07:57) The emotional tool (08:55) The spiritual tool (09:34) The environmental tool (11:32) The mental tool (12:53) The tool commonly used by physician clients  Resources Mentioned: BJ Fogg PhD:  https://www.bjfogg.com/ Tiny Habits Book:  https://www.tinyhabits.com/book  Connect with Dr. Penelope Hsu:TheHappyMD.comLinkedinFacebookGuiding Clarity Watch this episode:Youtube: https://youtu.be/PdqeG4SqP9Y Get to know more about Dr. Dike and The Happy MD:https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond We would love to hear your feedback.  Send us your review on Apple Podcasts/Itunes, or in other directories through this link: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/physicians-on-purpose-1546320Explore physician leadership tools and strategies to stop physician burnout, enhance physician wellness and give you the power of personal influence in the C-Suite. All the tools you need to play your role in leading the charge to wellness - at three levelsfor youyour teams and your entire organization.

In recent years, there has been an increase in physician burnout leading to depression, reduced productivity, low patient satisfaction, among others.  In this episode, I will share the burnout basics from 10 years of experience as a physician burnout coach, training over 40,000 physicians.  We dive deep into the three cardinal symptoms of burnout, the difference between the way men and women experience it, and how to approach a colleague who is struggling. “Change your actions, you'll change your results.  New actions give you new results.”- Dr. Dike Drummond  Highlights: (01:47) What is physician burnout? (02:36) Symptom One:  Exhaustion (03:08) Symptom Two: Cynical and sarcastic (05:12) The patient comes first:  Turning the off switch button (06:13) Symptom Three:  What’s the use? (06:46) The gender-based difference in physician burnout (09:39) How to reach out to a colleague in distress  Resources Mentioned:Christina Maslach: https://maslach.socialpsychology.org/ Watch this episode:Youtube: https://youtu.be/tkyE-_ZYdT4 Get to know more about Dr. Dike and The Happy MD:https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond We would love to hear your feedback.  Send us your review on Apple Podcasts/Itunes, or in other directories through this link: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/physicians-on-purpose-1546320Explore physician leadership tools and strategies to stop physician burnout, enhance physician wellness and give you the power of personal influence in the C-Suite. All the tools you need to play your role in leading the charge to wellness - at three levelsfor youyour teams and your entire organization.

Whenever you want to make a change in your life or your practice or you are working with a group/team of people and you want to make sure they are pulling in the same direction … This word triad gives you a road map to preventing your own physician burnout AND ensures all significant group decisions in your practice will be on target. VISION STRATEGY TACTICS IN THAT ORDER!!!In today’s episode, Dr. Mark Jaben, an experienced emergency room physician and the County Health Officer of Haywood County in North Carolina and also one of our coaches at TheHappyMD.com, shares how he realized his vision when he went to work in a little hospital in New Zealand.  He talks about his struggles, the lessons that he learned and brought back to the U.S., and how he pivoted his focus from career to family and put this word stack tool to use.  “A lot of times when there's struggle inside organizations, a lot of times when there’s struggle in your life, it's that we haven't got a clear vision. What is the Ideal Outcome here?”- Dr. Dike Drummond  Highlights: (01:33) Use cases of the word stack tool (02:29) How the tool shows up during physician discovery sessions (04:54) The tactical level thought process (07:41) Dr. Jaben’s life and career transitions (12:46) Dealing with medical practice struggles with a clear vision (16:02) ‘Notion of consensus’  Resources Mentioned: Free the Brain Book by Dr. Mark Jaben: https://www.amazon.com/Free-Brain-Overcome-Struggle-Organizations/dp/1732235309 Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519 The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker: https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Executive-Definitive-Harperbusiness-Essentials/dp/0060833459   Connect with Dr. Mark Jaben: TheHappyMD.com http://www.thehappymd.com/ Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-jaben-m-d-975683a/ FreeTheBrain.com https://www.freethebrain.com/about-mark-jaben   Watch this episode:Youtube: https://youtu.be/N35MyUbAo7k Get to know more about Dr. Dike and The Happy MD:https://linktr.ee/dikedrummond We would love to hear your feedback.  Send us your review on Apple Podcasts/Itunes, or in other directories through this link: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/physicians-on-purpose-1546320Explore physician leadership tools and strategies to stop physician burnout, enhance physician wellness and give you the power of personal influence in the C-Suite. All the tools you need to play your role in leading the charge to wellness - at three levelsfor youyour teams and your entire organization.

Dike Drummond MD welcomes you to our new Physicians On Purpose (POP) Podcast with the most important lesson - how to step out of the Whirlwind of Your Practice.Practicing Medicine is like working inside a Whirlwind. You must step out of your Whirlwind in order to escape Einstein's Insanity Trap. Here's how.Explore physician leadership tools and strategies to stop physician burnout, enhance physician wellness and give you the power of personal influence in the C-Suite. All the tools you need to play your role in leading the charge to wellness - at three levelsfor youyour teams and your entire organization.