Balance Between Personal and Professional Lives

1. 10 Suggestions to Create Balance and Enjoyment in Your Personal and Professional Life Neil Baum New Orleans, LA

Medical school

Post-graduate training

Practice

We take our work home

We are seldom off

We dont take the time to recharge our batteries

You are never done learning

Medicine is a journey not a destination

Always find time to be a student for your entire career

Hippocratic Oath - do no harm

Dont be afraid or embarrassed to have your action on the front page of the paper on told on 60 minutes

Ethic courses (?)

Use good judgment

At the end of the day, just do whats right and in the best interest of the patient

Rabbi Harold Kushner

I never met a man (doctor) on hisher death bed who said I wish I would have spent one more day at the office (seen one more patient) Rabbi Harold Kushner

There is no faster road to burn-out than taking on too many projects and accepting too many responsibilities.

Will the obligation enhance my career?

Will the commitment take away from my time with my family and friends?

Will this obligation lead to balance or imbalance in my life?

It is not a sin to say "no".

You have incredible education and skills

Are you making a difference in this world?

"Both my sons were hugely affected by the events of 9/11, and Nate was proud to serve in the Marines, as Austin is,"

Closed his Truckee practice, leaving his Reno home, relocating to San Diego and taking on a brand new persona, that of Navy Lt. Commander

Will serve as a Navy surgeon for three years.

Pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis) in three underdeveloped countries

A baby abandoned in the Amazonian jungle of Peru suffering horrific facial disfigurement.

Performed >100 operations on the child

Then adopted him

The Dash

By Linda Ellis

What will your dash say about you?

Many students, residents, fellows have debt ~$225,000

Start saving early

If debt levels increase for future physicians and income levels remain the same, the amount of gross income of future physicians devoted to debt service will increase as well.

* Private Practice Management, 39

Dont confuse your net-worth with with your self-worth

He weighed less than 133 lbs. He was 5'10"

His stomach was empty except for a few pills

He was bald...nothing but 'peach fuzz'

He had unexplained bruising on his knees and on the fronts of both shins

His hips, thighs and shoulders were riddled with needle wounds- result of injections of narcotic painkillers given three times a day for years

Achieving balance in your life is far more important than the balance in your check book

Cant do this alone

Have someone who is on the same pageeam

If you are older, hang out with young people

If you are younger, have older friends

Find out what patients want and give them more of it

Find out what the patients dont want and avoid it.

Would you go to a doctor like you?

Story of the bathroom

Take your practice seriously- not yourself

Medicine is the most enjoyable profession and it can be the most fun and rewarding

Always pursue happinessjust start right where you are. Chris Gardner

Always pursue BALANCEjust start right where you are!

Have fun: Take your profession-job seriously but not yourself

Will Rogers, we are all here for a spell, get all good laughs you can.

Inject a dose of humor into your daily activities: Book

Learn to tell a joke, you have 5 senses, learn to engage 6 thsense, sense of humor

Laughter and stress are incompatible. MSG: You cant be experiencing stress and laughter at the same time.If you want to lighten up a stressful situation find something to laugh about.

Be a disciplined doer and a decider, not a procrastinator. Nothing adds more anxiety to our lives than having deadlines and commitments that we are having trouble meeting. If you have several projects looming in the future,break them down into smaller projects and make a calendar marking off the completion of these little projects. That way you won't be left with a huge project with only days to complete. Discipline can bring balance to the busy professional: clean out your inbox, fill up your outbox, complete your medical records before the delinquency notice arrives, and look for an endpoint to your day. There will be a new set of mail, results, and problems tomorrow and a clean slate creates a balanced perspective. Confront those challenging decisions: a professional who can decide in a few minutes to recommend radical extirpative cancer operation to a relative stranger ought to be able to decide about the new 3 year lease with a few day's reflection.

4) Learn to say "no". There is no faster road to burn out than taking ontoo many projects and accepting too many responsibilities. The next time you are called to join a hospital committee, to become a member of a board in the community, or to accept an invitation for an evening dinner ask yourself these questions: Will the obligation enhance my career? Will the commitment take away from my time with my family and friends? Will this obligation lead to balance or imbalance in my life? If the answer is that you aren't furthering your career and if it distracts from your family time,then you should probably turn down these requests. Remember it is not a sin to say "no".

A day without a smile is like a day without sunshine!

And a day without sunshine is like.....night!!!

patients seenday 20

phone calls returned 20

e-mailsday17

prescriptionsday 42

review labs and x-ray 31

review specialist

reports 14 *Ann Intern Med 2007;147:693-698

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