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Surgery Work-life Balance Reconsidered

January 27, 2020 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

"You can sleep when you’re dead,” the surgery attending said to me in 1989 when I showed up from the call room a minute late for rounds. As funny as it sounds, I believed him. Surgery work-life balance has never been a thing. In fact, this mindset has been part of surgery’s (and medicine’s) hustle culture for years. Broken personal lives were sadly worn as a badge of ... Continue Reading about Surgery Work-life Balance Reconsidered

Tagged With: Burnout, Surgeons, Work-life balance

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Is Self-care the Answer to Physician Burnout?

November 2, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minutes

Among physicians, self-care is booming. This week on Twitter I pick this up from Esko Kilpi, Helsinki-based management guru: Our moral structures have been based on individualism emphasizing self-fulfillment, self-actualization and “fixing yourself.” What we would really need is a relational mindset emphasizing interdependence and ... Continue Reading about Is Self-care the Answer to Physician Burnout?

Tagged With: Burnout, Work-life balance

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