What most providers fail to realize is that they have let circumstances push, shove, or even nudge them off course for what they set out to do in the first place. Obviously, no one got into medicine so that they could get to go to war with the bureaucrats, the drama queens, and the policy storm troopers, but you no longer have to let the villains win. Make no mistake, if you are experiencing provider […]
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In the medical profession we always think of high-blood pressure as “the silent killer” but truth be known, it isn’t. High-blood pressure is the result of the real silent killer which is what I like to call “absorption of secondary stress”. What this means is that everyday, all-day we are taking in the stress of the world, insane amounts of bad news, and other people’s drama. In 2008, my life was in a very dark […]
Goodness knows that a health care professional’s greatest area of struggle comes in the heat of the moment. At times, in my life anyway, the stress has mounted to the point where I wasn’t sure I could even make it through my shift. I remember one year, it was the day after Labor Day, and our pharmacy filled more than double the amount of prescriptions that we were used to filling and it felt like […]