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Staying Motivated, Avoiding Burnout Staying Motivated, Avoiding Burnout Inside 2 p President: Reflame the Fire 12 p Prescription for Combating Burnout 15 p MPHP: First Response for Burnout Victims 18 p SLMMS Member Strategies for Wellness f VOLUME 39 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2017 / JANUARY 2018 p Cover Feature: Staying Motivated, Avoiding Burnout David M. Nowak, Executive Editor [email protected] President's Page: 2 James Braibish, Managing Editor We Need to Reflame the Fire Before It Burns Out Braibish Communications Lost control over work, EHR burdens contribute to physician burnout [email protected] p By J. Collins Corder, MD, FACP, Medical Society President Publications Committee A Three-Part Prescription for Combating Physician Burnout 12 Sean B. Bailey, MD and Restoring Balance Samer W. Cabbabe, MD Burnout and professional satisfaction are a shared responsibility Arthur H. Gale, MD Richard J. Gimpelson, MD p By Kathy Gibala Harry L.S. Knopf, MD Jennifer L. Page, MD The Missouri Physicians Health Program: A First Response 15 Pearl Serota, MD for Victims of Burnout Michael J. Stadnyk, MD p By Robert Bondurant, RN, LCSW St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine (ISSN 0892-1334, USPS 006-522) SLMMS Members Discuss Their Strategies for Promoting 18 is published bi-monthly by the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, 680 Craig Rd., Ste. 308, Saint Louis, MO 63141-7120; (314) 989-1014, Personal Wellness and Preventing Burnout FAX (314) 989-0560. Annual Subscription Rates: Members, $10 From exercise to family time to mindfulness, physicians strive to stay ahead (included in dues); nonmembers, $45. Single copies: $10. Periodicals postage paid at St. Louis, MO. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Surviving the Stress: Malpractice Risk Reduction 20 St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine; 680 Craig Rd., Ste. 308; Saint Louis, MO 63141-7120. Copyright © 2017 St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society Ways to reduce the risk of a lawsuit and work through litigation Advertising Information: www.slmms.org/magazine, or p By Diane S. Robben, MGMA St. Louis [email protected] or (314) 989-1014. Online copies of this and past issues are available at www.slmms.org/magazine. Features Printed by Messenger Print Group, Saint Louis, MO 63122. Graphic design by Lisa Troehler Graphic Design, LLC. John Sappington, MD: The Missouri Country Doctor Who Introduced 24 Quinine for the Treatment of Malaria in North America Ahead of his time, he produced and sold “anti-fever” quinine pills p By Arthur Gale, MD Physicians in Service 29 www.slmms.org Lifting Cancer Patients’ Spirits With Music p By Shannon Tai, Medical Student, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Facebook: saint.louis.metropolitan.medical.society Twitter: STLMedSociety Columns Officers Executive Vice President: Into the Light 8 J. Collins Corder, MD, President Christopher A. Swingle, DO, President-Elect More physicians are coming to terms with the threat of burnout and how to address it Ramona Behshad, MD, Vice President p By David M. Nowak Jason K. Skyles, MD, Secretary-Treasurer Samer Cabbabe, MD, Immediate Past President Harry’s Homilies: On Burnout 14 p By Harry L.S. Knopf, MD Councilors Sean B. Bailey, MD Parting Shots: Care for Your Teeth, Eyes and Ears 28 David K. Bean, DO p By Richard J. Gimpelson, MD Michael G. Beat, MD C.B. Boswell, MD News Robert A. Brennan, Jr., MD Munier El-Beck, MD Early Deadline for 2018 Resolutions 6 JoAnne L. Lacey, MD Jennifer L. Page, MD 2018 Physician Leadership Institute Begins February 10 10 Raja S. Ramaswamy, MD Installation Banquet and Annual Meeting Jan. 27 22 Andrea R. Sample, MD Inderjit Singh, MD AMA President: “Getting the Physician Voice Where It Needs to Be Heard” 23 Alan P.K. Wild, MD Departments Council Medical Student Liaisons Hannah Bucklin, Washington University 22 Welcome New Members 26 Alliance 27 Obituaries Mark Mullen, Saint Louis University 22 Calendar 27 Newsmakers Executive Vice President The advertisements, articles, and “Letters” appearing in St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine, and the statements and opinions contained therein, David M. Nowak are for the interest of its readers and do not represent the official position or endorsement of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society. SLMM reserves the right to make the final decision on all content and advertisements. St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine 1 f PRESIDENT’S PAGE p We Need to Reflame the Fire Before It Burns Out Lost control over work, EHR burdens, hours at work all contribute to spike in physician burnout By J. Collins Corder, MD, FACP, Medical Society President s physicians we are faced with challenges least one symptom of burnout, a substantial Ain patient care that involve making many increase over previous years. This indicates decisions in a concentrated time frame and that burnout among physicians has become a interacting with our peers to give appropriate national health crisis that CEOs of institutions care to our patients. We expect this as we are recognizing. They are stating their have been trained to diagnose difficult commitment to address the root causes of problems and work long hours that lead to burnout and reposition the health care work Medical Society President stress between our work and personal lives. force for the future.1 J. Collins Corder, MD, FACP The physician selection process is rigorous We will address this scope of burnout and and eliminates those unable or unwilling ways in which this is being dealt with in the to accept this lifestyle. Most physicians are medical community. altruistic and committed to their profession. They are taught to address complex problems The Scope of the Crisis and to embrace challenges, including grueling Physicians from 27 specialties graded the training, ongoing night calls and long work severity of their burnout on a scale of one hours. to seven in a recent Medscape survey—one Burnout is a long- A Public Health Care Crisis being that it does not interfere, and seven indicating thoughts of leaving medicine. All term stress reaction An escalating problem which is beginning to but one specialty selected a four or higher. The receive much-needed attention from health characterized by most affected specialty? Emergency medicine, care leaders is physician burnout. Burnout with nearly 60 percent of ED physicians depersonalization, is a long-term stress reaction characterized saying they feel burned out, up from half by depersonalization, including cynical or including cynical or in 2013. How can the rising prevalence and negative attitudes toward patients, emotional severity of burnout be addressed? Regulatory, exhaustion, a feeling of decreased personal negative attitudes systemic and practice environment issues achievement and a lack of empathy for appear to be key. toward patients, patients. The rate of physician burnout ranges emotional exhaustion, from 30-65% across medical specialties, More than 14,000 physicians surveyed with the highest rates among physicians in designated four concerns of too many a feeling of decreased the front line of care including emergency bureaucratic tasks, spending too many medicine and general internal medicine. We hours at work, feeling like you’re just a “cog personal achievement must address burnout among physicians as in a wheel,” and increased computerization and a lack of empathy a national imperative as health care reform of practice.2 “Today’s medical practice necessitates greater reliance on primary care. environment is destroying the altruism and for patients. commitment of our physicians,” said Tait The Quadruple Aim recognizes that a Shanafelt, MD, a hematologist and physician- healthy, energized, engaged and resilient burnout researcher at the Mayo Clinic, in a physician workforce is essential to achieve presentation at a NEJM Catalyst event last the national health goals of higher quality, June. He also stated that “We need to stop more affordable care and better health for blaming individuals and treat physician populations we serve. Studies continue to burnout as a system issue … If it affects show more than half of physicians report at half our physicians, it is indirectly affecting 2 December 2017 / January 2018 half our patients.”3 In any other business this would call for complexity of medical care and EHR burdens and waste, all immediate assignment of a team of system engineers, physicians leading to altered workflows and changed patient interaction. and administrators to correct this catastrophic problem that The end result is that many previously well-adjusted physicians affects quality of care, limits access to care, and is eroding are prompted to retire early, give up teaching and mentoring patient satisfaction. young physicians, go into “nonclinical” business, or leave the profession altogether. Issues of burnout get in the way of physicians’ ability to provide care to a patient. This primarily relates to the physician’s As a physician, I find a very trying problem is the “challenging professional spirit of life, involving individuals who work in patient.” I do not mean patients who challenge my clinical intense interaction with people. A physician’s present daily expertise or that of my colleagues. I am referring to the activity is a double-edged sword: what makes doctors great patients whose circumstances make it impossible to arrive also drives burnout!4 at a satisfactory therapeutic plan. The quality and safety of patient care, and indeed the very The example I will give is the 88-year-old who lives with her vitality of our health care systems, depend heavily on high- frail husband. Their children live in another state, their friends functioning physicians. In light of this compelling evidence that are no longer living or able to help, and they have difficulties burnout negatively affects patient care, health care leaders are finding transportation to office visits. She was stabilized in her rightly alarmed and are searching for answers. recent hospitalization and sent out doing well, only to return as a readmission within the next 30 days.
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