Burnout

Dr Jessi Gold provides quick tips for health care professionals to practice self-care during this difficult time.

Dr Steve Moffic talks about about some of the psychological dangers clinicians are facing during the pandemic in this video.

The current COVID-19 crisis is a wake-up call to how dangerously our health care workforce has been chronically over-stretched. Effective solutions are discussed.

The doctors, nurses, aids, food staff, and janitors are among the frontline heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. They know its ravages best and are most at risk. We mustn't let them down.

As we progress further in the COVID-19 crisis, it is even more important for mental health professionals to take care of themselves, so they can be available to provide a much needed service in the best way possible to patients. More in this podcast.

Behavioral health care providers are needed now more than ever to help support frontline caregivers and to provide access to care. Deena Tampi, MSN, MBA-HCA, offers insights about caring for the caregiver as well as providing access to care.

Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, MS, DFAPA, provides guidance for frontline health professionals and caregivers to mitigate stress and burden.

Tips for advocating for yourself and the safety of your patients.

In what seem like ancient times “BCV” (before coronavirus), there was a more slowly growing scourge for physicians and other health care workers: burnout.

This article discusses the return to work plan as a solution to the clinical and systemic problems arising from psychiatric disability.

Psychiatry can help us understand what layers of the onion exist that need to be peeled away, but the power to discard them once and for all resides within each and every one of us.

We may have strong (psychological) bones, but they are still susceptible to stress fractures. Face the new year armed with these guidelines on combatting symptoms of burnout, written by an expert in the field.

In a spirit of gratitude, here are eight of the many extraordinary advantages of being a psychiatrist.

The recognition of a wide range of traumatic experiences-physical or sexual assault, motor vehicular accidents, natural disasters, terrorism-has implications for understanding the vulnerability to vicarious trauma inherent in a clinician’s practice.

The fallout from burnout: alcohol dependence, binge eating, sleep disorders, and general ill health.

By building a practice model that we enjoy, it enhances our ability to “cure sometimes, treat often, and comfort always.”

People-staff and patients both-confide secrets to strangers. We all need to unburden in a way that won’t come back to bite us.

Few professional interactions create more anxiety, worry, and deep concern than telling someone unpleasant and painful news. Without a supportive environment, such conversations can enhance the chances of burnout.

What to do when a patient says they need disabled status, but you believe otherwise?

Finding meaning helps to reframe the experiences of our own lives, not as events to hide in shame or guilt, but as experiences that made us physicians we are today.

Our ability to speak freely regardless of role, training, or experience is one element that allows psychiatrists to discuss their fears and limits as clinicians.

Professionals in our fields are even more reluctant than the general public to seek mental health care because of stigma and negative career consequences. Here are 10 ways to address mental "unwellness."

Why do we, the experts in understanding the mind, have so much difficulty in addressing and improving our own mental health? Dr Moffic introduces our Portrait of a Psychiatrist series.

Like the song New York, New York, if we can succeed in reducing suicide in physicians, we can do it anywhere.

In the second part of our Psyched! podcast interview, Janae Sharp discusses why she feels she has been a different kind of voice for physician suicide awareness.

Gastroenterologist George Ferenczi escaped the Iron Curtain as a boy. Now he tries to justify his luck, and life.

Luring physicians with unusual incentives; telemedicine crosses state lines; primary-care practice makeover; and more.

Planning a break from your practice for a while? Here are some tips to help you work with your partners and patients for a meaningful long-term absence.

A comprehensive treatment plan is a systematic, thorough, painstaking therapeutic program that takes time for implementation and results