LIsten! Dr. Amna Shabbir is a Duke Health Trained Integrative Wellness and Certified Professional Life Coach. She is the Founder of the Early Career Physicians Institute and aims to serve doctors as they transition out of medical training to the first five years of independent practice via coaching,courses and free resources. Dr. Shabbir is also a Double Board-Certified physician […]
100! That’s how many episodes The Worth Physician has released! Thank you for your support and community. I hope this podcast has helped you through your journey. My ‘why’ is because I have been through burnout twice, and lost my best friend, who was also a physician, to suicide. Physician health is important to me. […]
Self-kindness may be interchangeable with self-love or compassion. It is treating yourself with the same kindness, words, and actions that you would use on a close friend or family member. It’s a foreign concept. I know. I get it. We’re taught in many households, cultures, and professions to put all others above our own needs. […]
Going through my own journeys of burnout, I didn’t have words to describe what I was feeling when I was feeling it. It wasn’t until 2019/2020 after Dr. Bicker’s suicide that I started to read about burnout/moral injury/ and physician suicide. I was appalled. The way chronic stress/burnout could manifest….that was what I had felt. […]
Listen to the episode! Many of us go into medicine to help people. When we start practicing medicine and understand that the system in which we work is disjointed from the corporate model of healthcare, it can lead to burnout, moral injury, and it does affect patient care. Medicine has become a business model based […]
The thought of writing my thoughts down on a piece of paper has never been really appealing to me. Or, at least not until recently. I’m not one for formal journaling, but maybe more doodling and list-making. Why would this be important? Throughout multiple conversations and scrolling through posts the past few days, I have […]
Listen to the episode! What happens when a medical professional, who has dedicated years to her craft, reaches a breaking point? Brittany Busse, MD, a surgeon turned tech-minded healthcare reformist, shares her inspiring journey on our podcast. Through a deep, candid conversation, we uncover her brave career transition and delve into the transformative potential of […]
Life happens. Life teaches us lessons if we only listen. We have to quiet the mind. We have to shut out the commotion and noise from the outside world. Truly reflecting and looking at what we need to thrive is important. Prioritizing our needs is a must. It is only then, once we know what […]
September is a month where we look at suicide prevention and awareness. September 10th was World Suicide Prevention Day and September 17th is National Physician Suicide Awareness Day. It’s a sad reality, It needs to be talked about. Physicians are humans; we have families, we have friends, we have so much love and passion for […]
Listen! Over the weekend, Kid A was sick. Kid A woke up and vomited, then went back to sleep shortly. It was not too surprising because there’s a virus going around, and it is school time again. I definitely watched Kid A for some time, but it made me think. It made me think about […]
