Managing Your Doctor Self

I’m having a conversation with a colleague when our talk drifted to how are we managing our lives. “How are you managing your physician life?” I asked. I am in the middle of pivoting professional directions, easing out on one an aspect of my physician life. So, maybe I could get an insight into how they balance all these amidst their very busy practice and learn something I could apply in my own life context. “You mean our academic, clinical and administrative life as a doctor? or all of that plus our family??!” She jokingly scoffed. The couple are surgeons, both taking masters degree, both professors at a school of medicine, have very vibrant surgical practice spanning several hospitals in the locality. “Plus,” she added, ” we have two adolescents who often ask about their whereabouts but eventually understood their professional and family “routines”. “We’re juggling, surviving and giving up something for another thing ! ” she continued. “How?”, I asked. While we were engaging in a lively discussion about how we manage our physician lives, it hit me. “Did they teach us managing ourselves in med school or training??” “No” was the unanimous answer. It was all a trial and error sort of learning. Imagine a physician, a noble profession, trained to treat, lead and managed people wasn’t trained to manage themselves. T1. Should physicians be “taught...
Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Tags: Habits Productivity doctors managing oneself physicians self management Source Type: blogs