resiliency

Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Nick Pettit, DO PhDOriginally published: Common Sense January/February 2019 Very few jobs, let alone, medical specialties have the potential to encounter death on a daily basis. With this comes responsibility, honor, reward, pride, but also despair, death, and failure. Politics and biases aside, as clinicians, it is engrained early in […]

2017 Wellness and Resiliency Summit Authors: Ashely Alker, MD, AAEM/RSA President 2017-18 and Robert Lam, MD FAAEM, AAEM Wellness Committee ChairOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2017 Emergency medicine has historically had the highest rate of reported burnout among all specialties. In the 2017 Medscape Lifestyle Survey, 59% of emergency physicians self-identified as “burned out.” A […]