Blog Archives - Page 9 of 17

09/20/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Pardon Me if I Am a Little Emotional

Dr. Thomas Fishler with Sonoran Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeons in Scottsdale, AZ, appears to have taken his own life earlier this week. I found out

08/22/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Working with Your Worst Enemy – Tips for Taming Your Inner Critic

What would you do if you were completely untethered by expectations? How would it impact your decisions? What other passions would

08/01/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

CHARMed – Signing On to Improve Physician Well-Being

Whatever term we want to use - burnout, passion killer, sick-and-tired-of-this - we’re feeling it in the medical community. Some studies are even

07/11/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Simple Reminders for Calming Physician Overwhelm

In our current healthcare system, feeling overwhelmed is common among physicians and a huge contributing factor to burnout. One of the main reasons

05/31/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Moving Away from Second Victim Syndrome

A recent article published on kevinmd.com titled “Second victim syndrome: a doctor’s hidden struggle” outlined the concept of second victim syndrome

05/15/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

How to Ensure Physician Wellness Programs are NOT Like Lipstick on a Pig

In her KevinMD.com article entitled “Physician wellness programs are lipstick on a pig” Linda Drozdowicz, MD argues that physician wellness programs

05/10/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Maintenance of Certification, Aging, & Our Patients

An article published in the Harvard Business Review set out to answer the question: “do doctors get worse as they get older?” With an aging population

04/25/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Training and Leading Physicians for the Fight Against Moral Injury

Note: This is part two of an ongoing blog series on burnout vs. moral injury. In the first installment, we learned that almost no one wins in our

03/21/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

How HPDE Helps Me Be a Better Surgeon

This guest blog was written by Dr. Lora Melman. My journey for continual learning started in medical school and pushed me through my surgical