Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularly across the globe to healthcare institutions in need of guidance on addressing this ever growing problem.
This episode is part 1 of a two part series. On this episode we deep dive into what burnout is, what its causes are and how it manifests. This episode will be followed up by Part 2 which will focus on the strategies to target burnout at an individual and organizational level.
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Stop Physician Burnout by Dike Drummond
Dr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer of Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in Redlands, California. Having originally trained in Internal Medicine and working as an Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at UC Davis her primary focus is now on how healthcare data visualization can change how we deliver healthcare in the modern world. This is an exciting conversation with topics ranging from how technology will guide the patient to the best car parking space to how recent infectious diseases crisis like the ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone and Liberia was managed.
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Esri - Health & Human Services
California HHS Open Data Portal
California Center for Health Statistics and Informatics
ESRI - Ebola Outbreaks 1976 - 2015
'The Hot Spotters' the New Yorker by Atul Gawande
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic by Steven Johnson
Tracking Medicine: A Researchers Quest to Understand Health Care by John Wennberg
The Emperor Of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Dr Bruce Johnson is an extreme physiology researcher at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota whose real laboratories are the extreme environments the world has to offer. He has conducted high altitude physiology research with climbers on Aconcagua in Argentina and free divers in Croatia. He has also conducted high altitude research over two seasons in Antarctica. Recently, as part of a NorthFace and National Geographic expedition to Everest he conducted extreme physiology research with the world renowned climber, Conrad Anker.
This conversation explores the details of how to integrate the passions you may have outside of your conventional career and use them as an opportunity to do truly exciting things. Dr Johnson's work is an exploration of the extreme physiology of the abnormal in normal environments and the normal in the most abnormal environments.
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Dr Bruce Johnson - The Mayo Clinic
The North Face: Everest Research Expedition
National Geographic - 'The Call of Everest'
Dr Ronan Kavanagh is a practicing rheumatologist in Galway, Ireland and is the co-founder of the dotMED Conference which embraces all that is creative in medicine. In addition to his full time practice Dr Kavanagh is a regular medical blogger and has been one of the leading physicians on social media for many years. Dr Kavanagh is a medical columnist with The Medical Independent, is a consultant to several med tech startups and is also the chairman of the Macnas Theatre Company.
This discussion takes us through all the challenges that surface during a career in medicine and how embracing a more diverse range of interests can be the thing that adds balance to a busy life as a clinician.
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dotMED The Creative Medical Conference
The Medical Independent - Dr Ronan Kavanagh Column
How Twitter Cured My Mid-Life Crisis by Ronan Kavanagh
Atul Gawande - Personal Best (On Having A Coach)
The Bad Doctor: The Troubled Life and Times of Dr. Iwan James by Ian Williams
A Fortunate Man by John Berger
Here are two quick exercises by Dr Dike Drummond, the physician burnout expert, that anyone struggling in healthcare should try. The first helps greatly in providing insight into burnout, the second is an emergency reset button when things get challenging. Enjoy!
Dr Dike Drummond is a Mayo trained Family Practice Physician who now specializes in physician burnout. The founder of TheHappyMD.com and author 'Stop Physician Burnout' he has come face to face with the realities of burnout as a physician on two separate occasions himself. He understands the complexities of physician burnout and how the one suffering burnout is often the last to know. Dr Drummond has coached thousands of physicians through the challenging times of burnout and speaks regularly across the globe to healthcare institutions in need of guidance on addressing this ever growing problem.
In this episode we discuss how burnout manifests in physicians, how men and women differ in their display of symptoms and most importantly we discuss the steps to addressing burnout. This discussion was one of the most eye opening conversations on burnout I have had and explained so much of why we feel the way we do in times of stress.
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Enjoy!
Selected Show Notes:
TheHappyMD.com
Stop Physician Burnout by Dike Drummond
Burnout Prevention MATRIX by Dike Drummond
Twitter: @DikeDrummond