This is the third post in a series on common mistakes I have seen medical residents and other professionals make just out of training, mistakes with long-term, often severe, consequences. The first post-training mistake I covered was the debt trap. The second was with employment agreements. In this post I’ll cover the third arena where…
Category: Wellness
Post-Training Mistakes Residents and Other Professionals Make: Part II
This is the second post in a series on common mistakes I have seen residents and other professionals make just out of training, mistakes with long-term, often severe, consequences. The first post-training mistake I covered in my last post was the debt trap. In this post I’ll cover the second arena where mistakes are commonly…
Post-Training Mistakes Residents and Other Professionals Make: Part I
In medicine, our first charge is to do no harm. As providers in healthcare we are always cognizant of this imperative. We live with a certain fear of missing something, omitting something, of making a mistake which might bring harm to a patient. Those are the kinds of mistakes with which we concern ourselves most…
Do You Know and Possess These 4 Cardinal Signs of Wellness
Emotional exhaustion, cynicism and inefficacy are the well-known cardinal signs of job related burnout. Engagement, the exact opposite of burnout, displays the cardinal characteristics of vigor, dedication and absorption. But what of wellness? It is probably a state we all like to dwell in, but how is it defined? Wellness is not merely the absence…