TAKING CARE OF YOUR PERSONAL WELL-BEING
With all of the recent research on physician burnout that has been published, it has become very apparent that taking good care of your self is equally as important as taking good care of your patients. The consequences of neglecting important personal, emotional and social needs include feeling compassion fatigue, exhaustion, dissatisfaction with work and depressed.Below is a link to a “Quality of Life Scale” that may be helpful for you to begin to think about how you feel and whether or not you want to make some changes in your daily routine that helps you to feel better.If after completing the scale, you wish to confidentially review it with someone and discuss some options, please call Dr. Harold Pass at (631) 444-6980.
Click Here for: Quality of Life Scale
There are steps that you can take to increase your well-being and reduce burnout. The link below is from an AMA website that you might find very helpful.
https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/physician-burnout
Simple tool show lasting effect in reducing burnout
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/887432