Post Author: Jacqueline Huntly, MD, MPH
Jacqueline Huntly works as a career and leadership development coach. She is founder, Thrive to Lead MD, and is certified through the Physician Coaching Institute. She has extensive experience helping individual physicians navigate burnout, reinvent their clinical practice, transition into non-clinical work, and grow strong self-leadership skills that support well-being, career, and leadership. She is a retired board-certified preventive medicine physician.
Jacqueline Huntly works as a career and leadership development coach. She is founder, Thrive to Lead MD, and is certified through the Physician Coaching Institute. She has extensive experience helping individual physicians navigate burnout, reinvent their clinical practice, transition into non-clinical work, and grow strong self-leadership skills that support well-being, career, and leadership. She is a retired board-certified preventive medicine physician.
Burnout:
“An erosion of the soul caused by a deterioration of one’s values, dignity, spirit, and will.”
– Christine Maslach (The Truth about Burnout by Maslach and Leiter)
“Shredding of the soul.”
– Rita Nakashima Brock (Director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America)
The word “soul” captures our attention by speaking in a language that bypasses the superficial, connecting directly to our deepest values and thoughts. In the context of burnout …
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Concern that the scientific growth of medicine has come at the expense of the art of medicine is not new. However, should we consider that not only does this impact the quality and practice of medicine, but might it also contribute to the rampant burnout in physicians? Does a narrow focus on the linear, scientific thinking that characterizes medical education and training mean that physicians are more vulnerable to the …
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