So everyone has bad days or even bad months at work, how do you know when it’s actually burnout? One author posed it as a continuum of stress– a dichotomy between stress and eventual burnout. You look for signs indicating struggle now, and make changes to head in a different direction in the future. The symptoms of burnout have been defined as exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency…
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I slammed my fist onto the desk in anger and I responded, exasperated- “I can give you five diagnoses right now but none of that is going to fix your problems. Do you want to be diagnosed with something else or do you want a solution?!” I realized I had just basically yelled at a patient, and sat back to…
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In college I took an introductory Philosophy class with several hundred other students. Most students did not attend class regularly, but of course, everyone was there for the final which represented the majority of our grade and was rumored to be a very difficult exam. I walked into the room and literally felt like I hit a wall of nerves.…
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I watched an incredible movie a few months ago called “Something the Lord made.” It’s based on a true story about these two men that research and create the surgery that now saves thousands of children’s lives every year. Basically, there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a babies heart as it is formed. Any holes…
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I saw a magnet one day that said, “Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.” And it would be really nice if that was true. But working in medicine I know for sure that it’s not.
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