by Deborah Bayer | Mar 14, 2016 | Poems, Resilience
If you’ve done any reading about healthcare recently, you know that medical culture can lead to burnout. You know that depression and suicides among physicians are rising at alarming rates. You know that work-life balance is practically nonexistent and self-care is...
by Deborah Bayer | Feb 26, 2016 | Resilience
This past Monday, I had the privilege of helping to facilitate Schwartz Center Rounds at my hospital. In 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, at age 40, was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. Before he died, he set up a foundation at Massachusetts General Hospital to...
by Deborah Bayer | Feb 12, 2016 | Resilience
Here’s the main thing, the essence. People become the victims of their own success, because if they do something well, they get asked to do more and more. This ultimately dilutes the original greatness. If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. You can...
by Deborah Bayer | Nov 28, 2015 | Resilience
Work life in health care is filled with stress. There’s time stress, lack-of-sleep stress, role stress, and computer stress. One of the most challenging stresses for caregiver professions, though, is people stress. Every student at her medical school interview will...
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 28, 2015 | Resilience
Legend has it that a frog will jump out if placed into hot water, but if you raise the temperature gradually it will stay until it’s cooked. This is an apt analogy for how older physicians currently view their jobs. If we were to jump from college graduation into our...
by Deborah Bayer | Jul 12, 2015 | Resilience
For me, physical symptoms are a clue to something I don’t want to know about myself. If I have a sore throat, I wonder if there’s something I need to say that isn’t being said. If I get a neck pain, I might attribute it to stress or a virus, but I also think,...
