Slide program that provides ten steps to create a 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
2. Why we have trouble with balance?
- We dont take the time to recharge our batteries
3. #1 Be a student
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- You are never done learning
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- Medicine is a journey not a destination
4. 5. Be a student 6. Podcasting 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Take home
message
- Always find time to be a student for your entire career
12. 2. Be ethical
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- Hippocratic Oath - do no harm
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- Dont be afraid or embarrassed to have your action on the front
page of the paper on told on 60 minutes
13. Story of the Jehovahs Witness 14. Story of Dr. Seybold 15.
2. Be ethical
- At the end of the day, just do whats right and in the best
interest of the patient
16. 3. Set priorities-God, Family, and Practice
17. Set Priorities
- 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
18. 4. Learn to say no 19. Just say no
- There is no faster road to burn-out than taking on too many
projects and accepting too many responsibilities.
20. The magic 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?
21. Take home message
- It is not a sin to say "no".
22. 5.Make a difference
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- You have incredible education and skills
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- Are you making a difference in this world?
23. Three doctors who made a difference 24. Dr. Bill Krissoff
25. Example of Dr. Bill Krissoff
- "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.
26. Dr. Paul Farmer 27. Dr. Paul Farmer
- Pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS
and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis) in
three underdeveloped countries
28. 29. Dr. Ian Jackson 30. David Lopez Jackson 31. Davids Story
32. David Lopez Jackson
- A baby abandoned in the Amazonian jungle of Peru suffering
horrific facial disfigurement.
- Performed >100 operations on the child
33. What difference are you making?
34. 19XX-20XX
- What will your dash say about you?
35. 6. Control your finances
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- Many students, residents, fellows have debt ~$225,000
36. Medical School Debt Load of Graduate Doctors 1992-2007*
- 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
37. Take home message
- Dont confuse your net-worth with with your self-worth
38. Michael Jackson 39. Was he happy?
- 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
40. Bottom line on finances
- Achieving balance in your life is far more important than the
balance in your check book
41. 7. Find a lifetime partner
- Have someone who is on the same pageeam
42. 8. Who are your associates?
- If you are older, hang out with young people
- If you are younger, have older friends
43. My neighbors 44. 45. 9. Exceed patients expectations
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- Find out what patients want and give them more of it
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- Find out what the patients dont want and avoid it.
46. Always ask
- Would you go to a doctor like you?
47. 10. Have fun!
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- Take your practice seriously- not yourself
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- Medicine is the most enjoyable profession and it can be the
most fun and rewarding
48. Finally advice from Chris Gardner Pursuit of Happiness 49.
Pursuit of Happiness
- Always pursue happinessjust start right where you are. Chris
Gardner
50. From Da Whiz
- Always pursue BALANCEjust start right where you are!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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".
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- A day without a smile is like a day without sunshine!
- And a day without sunshine is like.....night!!!
58. 59. Average of 5 M.D.sday*
- reports 14 *Ann Intern Med 2007;147:693-698
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