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I remember an interesting piece of advice someone once gave me when I was considering whether to train through the FRCP or CCFP route for emergency medicine. And that advice was to “consider which route would help me build something AFTER I started to wind down my emergency medicine practice.” I don’t know why that […]
NO ONE, and I mean NO ONE can have it all. If you have a challenging career and are raising young kids, it’s a guarantee that you will have to cut something out of your 168 hours a week and make compromises. You only have to be okay with your choices at any given stage […]
Psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Brown said that the opposite of play is depression. I firmly believe that doctors experience burnout because they have forgotten how to play. But if anyone deserves to have more fun, it’s people who keep caring for others each day they step into work. Think back for a minute: when did life […]
If your burnout and sense of overload is related to occupational stress, then you probably have considered reducing your workload to part-time hours. For this post, I’m going to assume that you’ve identified work as being the root cause of your burnout and overload. This is a very common cause, but it is nuanced. Perhaps […]
The other day, I was chatting with a female emergency medicine colleague about sleep. She mentioned that she hadn’t slept well in nearly a decade despite diligently adhering to all the sleep hygiene tips and taking HRT for peri-menopause-related sleep disturbances. Sleep can be challenging, especially if you have kids and work irregular hours. If […]
