by Elizabeth | Mar 21, 2017 | Break the Status Quo, Chronic Illness, Health at Work
Work Should Make You Well If you google the phrase “working is making me sick,” you get over 99 million hits. Search engines work so quickly that we don’t usually take notice of the number of hits we get, but I’ll tell you that 99 million...
by Elizabeth | Mar 17, 2017 | Health at Work
4 Ways to Create a Healthier Workplace When you think of health in the context of your job or your company, the first thing which springs to mind is probably health insurance. Or you might think of wellness benefits, such as gym memberships. But having health...
by Elizabeth | Mar 16, 2017 | Health at Work, Loneliness
The Unrecognized Epidemic of Loneliness and What to do About It I’ve been trying to have lunch with a colleague for three weeks. Yes, she’s a friend and I want to catch up with her, but I also want to talk business, get her feedback on a new project...
by Elizabeth | Jan 18, 2017 | For Doctors and Physicians, Health at Work
What Burnout Says About Medical Training In my last post I posed several questions about physician burnout, questions designed to probe into the culture of medicine which creates and sustains burnout. It’s easy to point to the pressures of regulation, declining...
by Elizabeth | Apr 7, 2016 | Fatigue, Health at Work, Stress
Are You a Physician Who Thinks You’re a Slave? When I connected with a colleague last week on LinkedIn, I couldn’t help but notice his job title. My colleague is a respected physician at a world renowned academic medical center whose CV contains a list of...
by Elizabeth | Sep 13, 2015 | Fatigue, Health at Work, Stress
Are You a Statistic? Do You Know One? It is no secret that rate of burn out among physicians hovers near 50% and is rising year over year. Think about that statistic for a moment. Burn out isn’t just “all in your head”. It affects clinical...
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