{"id":3940,"date":"2016-06-22T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbicblog.com\/blog\/academic-medicine\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2016-10-06T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T18:55:10","slug":"career-advice-for-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kbicblog.com\/academic-medicine\/career-advice-for-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Advice for Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #800000\">Good advice<\/span><\/em> \u2014 the kind that sticks with you and serves you well \u2014 is priceless. We asked physicians and clinical staff to share the best career-related guidance they ever received. Here&#8217;s what they said.<\/h3>\n<p>1. <span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;&#8216;Embrace it.&#8217; It can be the 15-minute break because a patient no-showed, or the opportunity to educate a physician over the phone on a tough case. You can see it as a negative or you can see the silver lining. Embracing it keeps you from losing it on a daily basis.&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 <em>Melissa Young, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>2. &#8220;&#8216;The patient comes first.&#8217; Sounds elementary but it&#8217;s complex &#8230; We can be self-absorbed, distracted, or hurried. We can be financially incentivized or temporally disincentivized to address a patient or caregiver&#8217;s concern. If one remembers that the patient comes first, errors will decrease and human interaction will flourish in a time of &#8216;technology first.'&#8221; \u2014 <em>David Lee Scher, MD, digital health technology consultant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;&#8216;Teach back.&#8217; When trying to ensure your patients understand their situation or care plan, ask them to tell you how they&#8217;d explain it to another family member who was not present. This is more productive than &#8216;Do you have any questions?&#8217; (Automatic answer: &#8216;No&#8217;) or &#8216;Do you understand?&#8217; (Automatic answer: &#8216;Yes&#8217;).&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 <em>Marcia Levetown, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>4. &#8220;&#8216;Meditate twice a day and you will improve your health, stress levels, and increase your energy&#8217; \u2014 and he was 100 percent correct, still do it two times a day even five years later.&#8221; \u2014<em>Audrey &#8220;Christie&#8221; McLaughlin, RN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5. <span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;Take a look at what the masses of society are doing &#8230; and then, do the opposite.&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 <em>Craig Koniver, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>6. &#8220;In this era of electronic medical records, with doctors reduced to being mere scribes facing the computer keyboard instead of the patient, I always recall what I was taught when in training, words in fact from Sir William Osler: &#8216;Listen to the patient! He\/she is telling you what is wrong with them.&#8217; This forces the doctor to focus on the heart of the problem and not get bogged down in peripheral details.&#8221; \u2014 <em>Richard Bensinger, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>7. <span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;My 80-year-old partner said to me, &#8216;If you can&#8217;t resolve a patient&#8217;s concerns in two visits it&#8217;s time to get a second opinion.'&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 <em>Christopher H. Tashjian, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>8. <\/em>&#8220;Listen to your patient. Let him\/her tell you the story of their illness. If you take the time to do this, they will tell you their diagnosis.&#8221; \u2014 <em>S. Michael Ross, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>9. <span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8220;The best advice was from my dad who said to treat all my patients like an extended family. In Hawaii, especially rural Hawaii, the family is a very important cohesive factor in our lives \u2026 It makes my patients feel like they really belong to a &#8216;medical home.&#8217; And for me, it&#8217;s great to see family on a daily basis. That&#8217;s why my job as a pediatrician never gets boring &#8230; I&#8217;m always with family&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 <em>Wes Sugai, MD<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Want more advice? Check out our physician resources that will guide you and your practice to success. <a href=\"http:\/\/kbicblog.com\/academic-medicine\/candidate-corner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dallas, TX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Physicians Practice<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good advice \u2014 the kind that sticks with you and serves you well \u2014 is priceless. We asked physicians and clinical staff to share the best career-related guidance they ever received. 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