How to Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes with Stuart Bloom
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Hey everyone, before we launch into today's episode, I wanted to share a word of thanks for all your support this year. With your help, we were able to produce two amazing live storytelling shows in Minneapolis and New York City, launch our Post Row America series, and continue featuring amazing authors and art makers on our Conversation series. Next year, we're planning to bring more stories and conversations onto the podcast, as well as commencing production on a brand new special documentary series on the topic of uncertainty in medicine, which you can learn more about on our website. If our work has been meaningful to you, I hope you'll consider including us in your holiday giving this year.
We do rely on our audience to keep our creative work going, so if you'd like to make a gift, you can find the donate button on our website. Lastly, I hope you will check out the reported essay that I published this fall in the literary magazine Virginia Quarterly Review, or VQR. The essay is called Best Practices, and it's about the current crisis in primary care in America and a group of doctors who are trying a new model called direct primary care. There's some great characters in the essay and a lot to learn from the DPC community, so I hope you'll consider giving it a read. With that, let's move on to the episode.
You're listening to the Nocturnist Conversations. I'm Emily Silverman. On this show, we love to highlight the work of writers and poets and other artists who are making work about health care. But it's pretty rare to find a doctor who is working in the medium of musical theater, a type of storytelling that I've loved ever since I was a kid, but which entails a lot of legwork. from writing dialogue to composing songs to hiring actors, designing sets, and most impressively, actually performing the show night after night in front of a live audience. But Dr. Stuart Bloom, an oncologist in Minneapolis, was not afraid to take that on. His new musical, How to Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes, has enjoyed multiple sold-out runs in the Twin Cities and has been performed at both Mayo Medical School and the University of Minnesota.
Several months ago, I was fortunate enough to be in Minneapolis during the run of his show and got to see it with my own eyes. It was hilarious and fun and touching, even as it examined some of the more difficult and cynical themes in healthcare. Stewart spent his 20s in New York City as an actor and musical comedian, but when he turned 30 and his father was diagnosed with cancer, he had an epiphany and decided to become an oncologist. After a 20-year run in community oncology, he joined the Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation at the University of Minnesota Medical School in 2021 as part of the Master Clinician Pathway. As Associate Director of Physician and Faculty Wellbeing for the division, he's committed to exploring and mitigating the causes of physician burnout.
He's also an affiliated faculty of the Center for the Art of Medicine. I loved this conversation with Stuart, but before we dive in, let's take a listen to one of the songs from his musical, Boo Hoo.
There's a patient in room four who's staring at the door. The weight drives her more than insane. But the scan of her head That you have just read Shows the cancer has spread To her brain
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