Physician Wellness and Resilience

Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-73829-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 258 mm x 316 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

Physician Wellness and Resilience: Narrative Prompts to Address Burnout explores 26 compelling narratives from practicing doctors and medical students as they share their personal and professional encounters in their own words.

This volume seeks to expand the conversations around burnout and mental health in the medical profession and advocates for a deeper appreciation of physicians as human beings, complete with a range of emotions and fallibilities. Its diverse array of professionals spans various medical specialties and career stages and covers a range of experiences, including dealing with sexism, committing medical errors, handling challenging colleagues, and the fear and commitment involved in treating patients with COVID-19. Chapters include discussion prompts to encourage creative problem-solving among readers and nurture a caring and supportive work environment for physicians seeking assistance.

Designed for use in medical school seminars and physician wellness seminars, this book is essential reading for physicians, junior doctors, medical students, and mental health professionals who work within these populations.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stonnington, Cynthia M.

Davies, Pauline

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Berufe, Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I Student life

1. Insight

Depression, career choice, identity management, privacy

2. Anxiety

Anxiety, help-seeking, privacy

3. Coping with Medical School Life

Work-life integration, perfectionism, failure, empathy

4. A Medical School Dean’s Perspective

Learning environment, career choice, role models

PART II Culture of Medicine

5. The Brunt of Anger

Medical hierarchy, bullying

6. Competition, Balance, and Happiness

Competition, suicide, prioritizing values

7. Suicide and Disenchantment

Suicide response and prevention, grief, stigma

PART III Practice Challenges

8. Medication Error

Medical errors, shame, humility, peer support

9. Commitment, Challenge, and Control

Resilience, setting boundaries, career change, life lessons

10. When Certainty Is Wrong

Sharing bad news with patients, when doctor is patient

11. Colleagues, Privacy, and Empathy

Privacy, workplace behavior, when doctor is patient

PART IV Career/Life Disruptions

12. Accident, Fear of Depression, and a Great Career

Depression, interrupted training, resilience, career choice, relative with mental illness

13. Childhood in Foster Care

Resilience, depression, help-seeking, relative with mental illness

14. From War-Torn Childhood to Life as a Foreign Medical Graduate

Resilience, role models, acculturation, racism

15. Empathizing with Mentally Ill People

Empathy, relative with mental illness, expressing emotions at work

PART V Women in Medicine

16. Infertile and Fulfilled

Fertility, resilience

17. Finding Balance with Kids and Career

Motherhood, women in medicine, giving bad news, insecurities at work

18. Motherhood in Training

Family planning, work-life integration, grief

19. Regrets and Dedication

Sex discrimination, bullying, infertility, fulfillment

PART VI COVID-19

20. Family Life in Covid Times

medicine as a calling, work-life integration, family support

21. The COVID-19 Experience

Uncertainty, witnessing death

22. COVID-19, the Aftermath

Burnout, depression, career change

PART VII Burnout

23. Leadership

Overwork, grief, suicide, leadership behavior

24. Pain Clinic Doctor’s Despair

Moral injury, patient behavior, leadership behavior, opioid crisis

PART VIII Addiction

25. Road to Recovery

Addiction, guilt and shame, accountability, recovery

26. Practicing Medicine in the Grasp of Addiction

Addiction, suicide attempt, accountability, recklessness, recovery

Über Autor(innen)

Pauline Davies is Professor of Practice and teaches human communication at Arizona State University. Specializing in cancer research outreach, she is also an award-winning former BBC science and health broadcaster.

Dr Cynthia M. Stonnington is an award-winning psychiatrist, educator, and wellness expert at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She directed the psychiatry and psychology department for ten years.