Few professions are as physically and emotionally challenging as the practice of medicine.From the rigors of medical school to the high stakes, rapidly changing, multi-tasking reality of practice, physicians face unbelievable stress for years on end. It s no surprise that half of all physicians face burnout, work-home conflict, and other serious issues.
This 'survival guide for the psyche' is packed with insights and strategies to help you build the resilience you need to succeed and grow, both personally and professionally, in the modern healthcare system.
In The Thriving Physician, Drs. Simonds and Sotile: Explore an array of stressors and provide coping strategies designed to help you defuse them Offer probing questions related to each stressor to spark reflection and discussion with colleagues and loved ones Highlight what creative organizations are doing to help reshape the medical workplace to promote physician resilience Weave in real life anecdotes throughout, taking their insights and advice from theoretical to deeply personal and relatable
You ve chosen a noble helping profession one that should be a source of joy and pride. Whether you read this book cover-to-cover or focus only on the stressors that most impact you, it can change your life for the better. It s time to take charge of your career; it s time to become a thriving physician.

The Thriving Physician: How to Avoid Burnout by Choosing Resilience Throughout Your Medical Career

Medical Books

Sotile, Wayne M.

Simonds, Gary R.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Huron Consulting Group, LLC

A happy, long-lasting career in healthcare requires more than just mental fortitude Far too often, you hear of colleagues leaving healthcare; they re burnt out, their work stress has crept into their home life, and they just need some respite. Meanwhile, their responsibilities are dispersed amongst the remaining team, and the cycle is perpetuated by the added work, lack of resources, and feelings of inadequacy. 
 In Thriving in Healthcare, Drs. Simonds and Sotile provide a survival guide for the psyche, packed with insights and strategies to help you develop the resilience needed to succeed and grow both personally and professionally in the modern healthcare industry. Based on their decades of experience coaching healthcare professionals, and building upon their findings from a five-year resilience development program at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Simonds and Sotile bring solutions to the top barriers healthcare professionals face, including: 
 Debunking the myth of work-life balance and, rather, finding the blend that works for you Hardwiring healthy coping mechanisms for dealing with on-the-job stressors Fostering a collaborative and joyful workplace culture that encourages teamwork 
 Healthcare is one of the hardest and most rewarding professions. However, you can t help others if you don t take care of yourself. It s time to take charge of your path and own your future career, happiness, and results.

Thriving in Healthcare: A Positive Approach to Reclaim Balance and Avoid Burnout in Your Busy Life

Business & Money

Wayne M. Sotile, Ph.D.

Gary R. Simonds, M.D. MHCDS

Management & Leadership

Today, The University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS) is a world-class academic medical center. Forover a decade, it has been nationally ranked as one of the best hospitals in America by US. News & WorldReport. But back in 1997, the opposite was true: TUKHS had the lowest patient satisfaction ranking in thenation at a grim 5th percentile. It also faced deteriorating patient volumes, higher than expected mortalityrates, unsustainable turnover, and severe shortfalls in funding.So how did TUKHS get from those dark days to where it is now? Proud But Never Satisfied shares tentransformative actions that worked. Health system executives Bob Page and Tammy Peterman explain howthey reinvented their culture, engaged their people, and "turned the Titanic around" in under a decade. Hereare the leadership lessons and strategies that readers can apply to their organizations, including:? How its patient-first culture gave TUKHS the agility it needed when the COVID crisis hit? Why Doing the Right Thing (for patients and staff) is a powerful, viable business model? How it reinvented itself from a state-administered entity to an autonomous public authority - ahigh-stakes choice forcing leaders to balance political, business, and medical interests? What it takes to hardwire consistently high expectations into your organizational culture? How to empower employees to fixate on the fix and sweat the small stuff? How acculturating an essential leadership role for all nurses improves patient outcomes? Which innovative methods work for partnering, collaborating, and advancing organizationalimpact on the broader communityNot only is this a compelling story in its own right, Proud But Never Satisfied is a practical blueprint for otherorganizations struggling to survive in the era of the pandemic. It's an inspiring treatise on how (and why) topush for continuous improvement whether you're already doing well or ready to do even better.

Proud But Never Satisfied: Ten Transformative Actions for Healthcare Systems

Bob Page

Tammy Peterman

Leeanne Seaver

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