Lessons from within
When you walk into a room for the first time, what do you see, a patient or a person?
I recently spoke with one of my clients, a neurologist specializing in stroke, about this. For him, this question of patient or person is absolutely and inextricably linked to the fixer-healer question. As a physician in a specialty where events have often already happened, a good deal of his energy is spent providing comfort and information, ultimately empowering the patient with knowledge.
Read MoreThe answer may have everything to do with how happy you are at work.
And beyond.
How you see yourself as a physician — healer or fixer — reflects back to what you see is possible for your own life.
Read MoreYou binge watch 60s television Westerns because you can’t quiet your mind any other way.
Read MoreTo help even one physician become pain-free and achieve work-life balance, is to help countless others with whom they cross paths as patients, colleagues and friends. You are the influencers, the healers. You fix others, but somehow can’t quite fix yourselves.
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