Most of us are trained to tackle problems and issues when they arrive. When a patient comes to the ER with chest pain, you sort it out. When an appendix is inflamed, you remove it. Sure, there are preventative medicine docs, but the vast majority of us focus on solving problems after the fact. It […]
Every other week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After manually filtering through the millions of articles out there on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this month. Here’s our Journal Club for the week, enjoy! Point blank. Doctors are burning out. They really are. And the reasons being range from money […]
We often get too bogged down in the details of our lives. It’s hard not to because, well, it’s life and we have to live it. But generally, we should know that life is what we make of it and the details are of our own doing. The Physician Philosopher addresses this and more by […]
Every other week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After manually filtering through the millions of articles out there on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this month. Here’s our Journal Club for the week, enjoy! There’s a reason you should retire early and it has to do with more than a […]
People in every industry are at risk of professional burnout resulting in a loss of enthusiasm, increased stress, emotional exhaustion, low sense of accomplishment, etc. However, those of us in the field of medicine know that we’re highly susceptible to it. In fact, burnout among healthcare professionals is on the rise with over 50% of […]
Have you ever felt taken advantage of during your medical career? You might have put in those extra hours of training, done above and beyond what was expected of you, however, you were left with nothing to show for it. In this post by The Physician Philosopher, we talk about the difficulties of saying no, […]
Every other week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After manually filtering through the millions of articles out there on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this month. Here’s our Journal Club for the week, enjoy! The conundrum of having two households with two doctors is that it’s disproportionate. Smart Money MD […]
Every other week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After manually filtering through the millions of articles out there on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this month. Here’s our Journal Club for the week, enjoy! As physicians, we become comfortable with debt. But there is a way to leverage it as […]
I’ll be totally honest with you. I’ve struggled with poor time management skills most of my life. Planners never seemed to work because I was horrible at keeping them up-to-date. Those online project management programs that “automatically” track time, projects, and tasks? I’ve tried them all with no effect. The result was that there just […]
Every other week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After manually filtering through the millions of articles out there on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this month. Here’s our Journal Club for the week, enjoy! To kick off the new year, a bunch of bloggers have been sharing their resolutions, goals, and […]
