Physician Wellness
The History of Wellness
Though considered by many a newer concept, the tenets of wellness date back to antiquity. Long before recorded history, human drive for survival and exposure to the ubiquity of physical suffering and death must have elicited a desire to escape or at least defer that inevitability. And with that desire, a search for the means…
Read MorePhysician Health & Wellness in the Era of COVID-19: Resources for Preventing Physician Stress & Burnout
“Wellness is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” -WHO James Lake, M.D., wrote in a June 2020 article in the Psychiatric Times on “4 Pillars of Good Mental Health.” Dr. Lake states, “It is of utmost importance to focus on improving lifestyle factors,…
Read MorePhysician Health & Wellness in the Era of COVID-19: Better Days Ahead – the Rollout of Vaccines
“What is wellness? A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” -the WHO As I began writing this next installment on the series, “Physician Health & Wellness in the Era of COVID-19” I was struck by how much had changed in the last 6 months…
Read MorePhysician Health & Wellness in the Era of COVID-19: Mental Health Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physicians
For most physicians, the practice of medicine is as much a calling as it is a profession. The calling of this practice is rooted in the character of the physician whose daily decisions and patient interactions are the outcomes of a commitment to values that supersede one’s own self-interest. However, though medical training is highly…
Read MorePhysician Health & Wellness in the Era of COVID-19: “If not now, when?”
It’s been a year. A whole year. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization formally declared COVID-19 a world pandemic. Now, more than a year later, we are still in the midst of the COVID-19 world pandemic with hope for an end in sight but also with great uncertainty ahead. Not since the 1918…
Read MorePhysician Wellness in America
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” -Sir Winston Churchill. The issue of physician wellness has grown immensely in importance over the last decade or more, and with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging internationally, perhaps even more so. This is due to wellness’s critical impact not only on the lives of physicians…
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