Creating a Culture of Wellness
A culture of wellness in medicine can drive professional fulfilment in all physicians and lift up those at greatest risk for burnout. However, some factors in medical culture today create barriers to cultivating a culture of wellness. These include a numb
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The Art and Science of Physician Wellbeing A Handbook for Physicians and Trainees
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The Art and Science of Physician Wellbeing
Laura Weiss Roberts Mickey Trockel Editors
The Art and Science of Physician Wellbeing A Handbook for Physicians and Trainees
Editors
Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA, USA
Mickey Trockel, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, CA, USA
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For my mom, Anne L. Weisskopf, RN, who is always telling me to take better care of myself. Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA For my wife, Eva Yagues Pascual, whose wisdom inspires me to let go of fear and let love reign. Mickey Trockel, MD, PhD
Preface
In the past, physicians-in-training worked around the clock, making a few dollars a day. They lived in the hospital and were permitted to return home, briefly, on Sunday afternoons. Fully trained physicians commonly entered solo practice working 24/7, 365 days a year to care for patients in their communities and at the hospital. Doctors made home visits and took care of entire families across generations. The physician as an isolated, tireless, self-sacrificing, and perfect superhero became the cultural ideal. Doctors fulfilled their professional calling by sacrificing their more inclusive identities as complete, healthy, personally fulfilled people for their all- encompassing, all-demanding lives as physicians. The culture of medicine was built on a system of concepts, behaviors, and structures that implicitly and explicitly requi
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