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…
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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…
Long Term Caregiver Burnout – 11 Things You Need to Know
One day, you will become a patient. We all will. Even before that happens, you may find yourself in the role as caregiver, caring for a loved one who is convalescing, ill, or dying. Healthcare providers know and expect what this entails, for we are faced with it every day. What about the general public,…
How Job Burnout is Related to Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Job related burnout is not something most people would associate with higher rates of alcoholism and other drug abuse. Yet studies show when burnout is severe, alcoholism and drug addiction become highly connected. No one who’s severely burned out at work ever wakes up one day and decides, “Gee, I think I’ll make things worse by…