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Notes from Video

Types of Environmental Demand Challenges

  • Too many tasks – take more time than available
  • Tasks that added up are physically or mentally exhausting
  • Too complex or challenging, often without anyone to curbside for advice
  • High level of unpredictability

Methods for Resolving Burnout

  • Change environmental demands
    • Decrease the number of tasks: eliminate, avoid adding new ones
    • Simplify the tasks: for example, become more efficient at writing notes
    • Increase control and predictability: limit and negotiate
  • Change your capacities
    • Change your mindset: Accept that no one will be watching out for you. You must place your own limits around what you do and how you spend your time.
    • Increase your skills: note-writing, EMR navigation, negotiation, saying no, time management, managing patient encounters (increasing value of time spent with patients and their level of satisfaction)
    • De-emotionalize: Just Do It! without fretting about it

Until next time,

Dr. Jack

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Today’s Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
– Margaret Mead

“Omigosh—I’m a squash!”
– Dave Horowitz, The Ugly Pumpkin