Physician Burnout Part 4: Increasing Our Re-charge at Home

Physician Burnout Part 4: Increasing Our Re-charge at Home

Apr 20, 2017 | 0 comments

Our lives are often frenetic both at home and at work. The last person that we look after is usually our self. If we step back and consider this for a minute, or if we look at it from the standpoint of us giving a patient advice, then our advice would be that in order...
Physician Burnout Part 2: Reducing Stress at Work

Physician Burnout Part 2: Reducing Stress at Work

Feb 20, 2017 | 0 comments

In my last post, I mentioned Dr Dike Drummond’s “Burnout prevention matrix”. For me this provides a great way to dissect burnout prevention by looking at strategies to reduce stress at home and work and to increase our recharge in both. In this post, I want to focus...
Physician Burnout Part 1: Preventing Burnout

Physician Burnout Part 1: Preventing Burnout

Jan 20, 2017 | 0 comments

I am a doctor, a GP. I have worked in the NHS for over 20 years. I have always loved my job. Then, stress and anxiety completely crippled me. I no longer enjoyed working as a GP. In fact, I dreaded it. I was exhausted and burnt out. I am not alone in this. Over the...
Cardiovascular Insights

Cardiovascular Insights

Dec 20, 2016 | 0 comments

Dr. Hicks is the founding physician of Veritas Cardiovascular in South Carolina. He noticed that patients were often confused by their diagnoses and why they were supposed to be taking certain medications. Medical staff can all feel the pressures of time during...
The Oxygenator Assessment – Part 2

The Oxygenator Assessment – Part 2

Nov 21, 2016 | 1 comment

In Part 1 of ‘The Oxygenator Assessment’ we learnt what the oxygentor is. In Part 2 we are going to look at the 6 big issues that need to be covered from an airway assessment perspective: The atmosphere Mask ventilation Laryngoscopy/intubation → infraglottic Rescue...