Attention mid-career physicians: Let’s find our ikigai
As a physician who helps administer and analyze our medical staff’s wellness data, I have been puzzled by one consistent finding from our semi-annual physician wellness survey – the group of physicians with the highest level of distress are the mid-career physicians, those who, like me, graduated from medical school 15 to 24 years ago.
Our hospital, a community-based, semi-academic hospital, utilizes a nine-question survey to track physician’s well-being. Some of …
