10: Doctors, you're WRONG about BURNOUT

You can find the COST OF LIVING exercise & checklist here: https://bit.ly/47kSG8b. When you sign up for the email list, not only will you receive the exercise but Becc guide you through it with self-coaching lessons & prompts straight to your inbox over the next 4 weeks.  --- Why are doctors burned out? What's the solution to burnout? How does the healthcare system need to change to solve burnout? What is moral injury? Is moral injury or burnout the problem? How to change the way you use your time to improve your burnout (hint: it's not 'be more efficient') Can time management REALLY fix burnout?   THIS EPISODE is an important episode for anyone out there who is not feeling like they're living a life that they enjoy living in. This episode is not only for doctors who are at that awful, end stage of burnout but it's for anyone who feels like  … your hand work isn't 'working' - it's not giving you back the results you want  … you're willing to work hard but it's not feeling worth it  … no matter how hard you work, you're not getting the results you want  … no matter how hard you work, it's not fixing the problems … no matter how hard you work, it's not filling you up    The way that the burnout conversation is oversimplified at the moment has a lot of highly intelligent people feeling stuck.   The problem is, if burnout is a problem of working too hard… Of workloads being too high… Of trying to do too much with too little.    We're stuck.    Our only option is to work less or to work less hard. In our current system, that brings up unacceptable subsequent problems for doctors:    "BUT my patients will be the ones who miss out and suffer if I do less" "BUT my colleagues will just have to do more if I do less"   Enter: MORAL INJURY.    Here, the only option is to  … allow our patients to have a lesser standard of care  … put our equally stretched, distressed and struggling colleagues under more pressure   Those solutions are simply not acceptable to us.    Notice, we can either work less hard to solve our burnout… But then we face moral injury.    Or    We can lessen the moral injury at the cost of working more and becoming burnt out.    We think the problem is working too much.  So we need to work less. But when we work less, the consequences are unacceptable.    It's no surprise that we feel STUCK.    … trapped  … defeated  … hopeless   The current burnout conversation largely centres around what is DRAINING & DEPLETING us. And that's an incredibly important aspect of burnout.  But if we don’t look at the other side of the equation, we miss out on the other half of the solutions available to us: what's ENERGISING & FULFILLING to us.    In this episode, we talk about common misunderstandings of burnout that keep us reliant on solutions that don't address the problem. We uproot the thought errors that perpetuate these cycles working hard to over-compensate for an inadequate healthcare system.    We talk about THE OTHER SIDE of the burnout equation: doing meaningful, fulfilling work. And how we can realistically do that in the setting of an under-resourced healthcare system.    We can't wait to have meaningful discussions WITH YOU about burnout, moral injury, and how we can ultimately change this system for doctors. Whether you agree, disagree or a mixture, we want to hear from you. See you in the comments!

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