Are you a physician feeling stressed and burned out? Do you feel like you have little time, no energy and no joy at work? More than 60% of frontline healthcare workers were feeling burned out before the pandemic.
Something to be thankful; recognize and honor our healthcare workers and people in our lives.
All of us have a difference of opinion on where and how much money should be allotted for various spending by the federal, state, and local government. Yet, we do not seem to flinch about over 1 billion dollars spent on both sides of the aisle, on the campaign trail leading up to this past
Key to quality healthcare delivery is to do no harm to patients. Twenty years after the publication of “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System” by the Institute of Medicine, healthcare organizations are still challenged by adverse events. Safety processes and procedures borrowed from the airline industry do help to catch some impending
Caregiving for a loved one is complex, challenging, and ongoing. Stress can be less when family members take the time to discuss assumptions and expectations early on and revisit this periodically since caregiving is a dynamic situation. Various issues needing attention range from finding help and resources, family planning, financials, deciding roles each family member
Listening to the rhetoric expounded during the current political season in the USA is a reminder of how easy it is to say empty words. Are these statements likely to change the thoughts and beliefs of those who listen? Maybe they will sway the few truly undecided. Anyone who already has chosen one candidate over
Today Geoff and Karen talk about how important it is to take care of yourself and recharge your own batteries in order to best provide caregiving for others. Their discussion looks at the various areas that need to be addressed in yourself such as physical body, mind, spirit, and personal growth.
Everyone feels it is difficult and challenging to bring up conversations when there is illness involved. We discuss having uncomfortable conversations with others experiencing medical crisis feels like taboo because we are not sure how it will be received or what the medical outcome will be. Even if we have permission to bring up the
Rick Tamlyn and I discuss what I know about cultural toxicity and what it can cost a team, an organization, and us as individuals. As part of the discussion, I share what impacted me to do this work and relay the 9 pain elements that need to be healed to create a healthy culture. Healthy
We discuss how to remain hopeful while swimming in a sea of medical uncertainty. A big help discussed is to reframe the conversation around hope when the odds are against you. Focus on celebrating the small victories in the day to day struggles.
Listening to the rhetoric characterizing the current political season in the USA reminds me how easy it is to make promises. Although words may sway the undecided, words are unlikely to change the fundamental beliefs of people. Those of you who have already made up your mind for one candidate over another will listen and
In early March, the pandemic felt like something far away, affecting mostly Europe, and Italy, in particular, where my husband’s family lives and two of his schoolmates succumbed to the disease. I was living at the time in Saudi Arabia and expecting to return to the US at the end of March, after 5 years.
