Thinking about Quitting Medicine
Thinking about Quitting Medicine

Author: C. Nicole Swiner

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9780986370229

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Brought together from various fields of medicine, our team of visionary physicians come together with the shared mission of guiding our current generation of frustrated physicians to finding a path in medicine that is aligned with their ideal lifestyle vision.Who are our authors?From Emergency Medicine, to Obstetrics and Gynecology, to Radiation Oncology, to Psychiatry to Psychology, to Beauty Queens with combined Law and Medical Doctorates we've brought our best docs together. We've brought you medical school professors, entrepreneurs, publishers, locum tenens practitioners, doctors who entirely quit medicine to build virtual worlds, doctors who left the world of traditional practice to do missionary work.They've all come together to share with you their experiences during medical training, their careers and lives after medical training out in the real world, and the feelings and thoughts that called them to consider alternatives to medicine.

The Doctor Dilemma
The Doctor Dilemma

Author: Sara Dill

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1642792462

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The Doctor Dilemma is an easy-to-read book for busy physicians who are struggling with burnout, unhappiness, and career dissatisfaction, and may even be wondering if they made a mistake becoming a doctor. Currently over 50% of physicians across all medical specialties are reporting symptoms of increasing stress and burnout. Sara Dill, MD has been there. She knows how painful it is to secretly wonder if all those years of school and training were a mistake. The Doctor Dilemma reminds doctors why they decided to go into medicine in the first place and helps them outline what their dream job looks like. This timely helper, written by a physician and certified life coach, outlines the tools and steps doctors can take to start feeling better, reverse burnout, and create the dream medical career and work-life balance they want. It’s time for doctors to become the happy and successful healers they always wanted to be.

Med School Uncensored
Med School Uncensored

Author: Richard Beddingfield, MD

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2017-07-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0399579702

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An entertaining insider's guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of med school--with everything pre-med and med students need to know, from day one, to maximize opportunities and avoid mistakes. Cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and recent med school grad Dr. Richard Beddingfield serves as an unofficial older brother for pre-med and incoming med students--dishing on all the stuff he would've wanted to know from the beginning in order to make the most of med school's opportunities, while staying sane through the gauntlets of applying to and succeeding at med school, residency, fellowship, and starting work as a new physician. With advice from additional recent Ivy League med school grads and top-tier hospital residents, this all-in-one guide is a must-have for everyone who dreams of becoming a doctor.

This Is Going to Hurt
This Is Going to Hurt

Author: Adam Kay

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0316426733

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In the US edition of this international bestseller, Adam Kay channels Henry Marsh and David Sedaris to tell us the "darkly funny" (The New Yorker) -- and sometimes horrifying -- truth about life and work in a hospital. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know -- and more than a few things you didn't -- about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

The End of Illness
The End of Illness

Author: David B. Agus

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1451610173

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From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for living a long, healthy life.

50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians: Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care
50 Nonclinical Careers for Physicians: Fulfilling, Meaningful, and Lucrative Alternatives to Direct Patient Care

Author: Sylvie Stacy

Publisher: American Association for Physician Leadership

Published: 2020-05-20

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780984831074

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How Physicians Can Leverage Their Clinical Skills to Transition to Another Career. By the time they realize their career in clinical medicine isn't everything they thought it would be, many physicians believe they're too invested in their trade to turn back now. Feeling burned out, disengaged, unfulfilled or burdened by high student debt or compensation incommensurate with the demands of their job, they may feel trapped, without options and with nowhere to turn. In her book, 50 NONCLINICAL CAREERS FOR PHYSICIANS: FULFILLING, MEANINGFUL, and LUCRATIVE ALTERNATIVES TO DIRECT PATIENT CARE, preventive medicine physician Sylvie Stacy offers physicians an escape from that bleak "trap" by identifying numerous nonclinical career options that could align with their skillsets and individual financial situation. While providing an escape from the stressors of clinical medicine, the book also allays much of the potential guilt associated with "selling out" their chosen profession or abandoning patients by explaining how each physician's training and talents directly translate to patient care outside of clinical medicine. The value of 50 NONCLINICAL CAREERS FOR PHYSICIANS is in its actionable advice, including how to market yourself in job applications and interviews, and the abundance of detail it provides - including responsibilities, range of compensation and stress levels - to help readers decide which alternative career is the best fit for them. And while other authors encourage physicians to start their own business, Stacy focuses on full-time positions that don't require the reader to begin their own consulting business or find their own clients.

The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty
The Ultimate Guide To Choosing a Medical Specialty

Author: Brian Freeman

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2004-01-09

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 0071457135

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The first medical specialty selection guide written by residents for students! Provides an inside look at the issues surrounding medical specialty selection, blending first-hand knowledge with useful facts and statistics, such as salary information, employment data, and match statistics. Focuses on all the major specialties and features firsthand portrayals of each by current residents. Also includes a guide to personality characteristics that are predominate with practitioners of each specialty. “A terrific mixture of objective information as well as factual data make this book an easy, informative, and interesting read.” --Review from a 4th year Medical Student

The Bleep Test
The Bleep Test

Author: Luke Austen

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1000872416

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What does it mean to help save someone's life? How does it feel to nearly kill a patient? Can we keep our patients safe at night? In the face of overwhelming pressures, can we thrive or only survive? And is a happy life as a doctor still possible? In the early months and years of work, it is these kinds of questions, rather than any technical or knowledge-based queries, which preoccupy many new doctors. This elusive, hidden curriculum is pervasive within departments, around hospitals and across health systems, but is rarely, if ever, explicitly examined and discussed. At its core is the issue that should matter above all others – how we can keep our patients as safe as possible. The Bleep Test combines gripping and startlingly vulnerable recollections of early experiences on the wards with an array of research findings, from psychology and human biology to anthropology, business and behavioural economics. Acknowledging that the truly complex challenges facing new doctors lie far beyond the realms of the traditional medical sciences in which they were trained, the book explains that the shift to being a doctor depends on first understanding how we think, reason and behave as someone we have been all our lives – a human amongst humans. Focused on the experiences of, and the issues facing, recently qualified medics, The Bleep Test is not only for young doctors, but also for anyone who manages them, works with them, cares for them or may one day depend on them.

Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout
Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2020-01-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0309495474

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Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.