S03E12: Burnout & Resilience with Dr. Najjia Mahmoud
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Dr. Sharon Stein discusses physician burnout and resilience with Dr. Najjia Mahmoud, exploring its clinical anatomy and structural solutions.
Physician burnout is often treated as a personal failure—a symptom of missing a meditation session or a hospital pizza party. But true burnout isn't about how much you suck; it’s about the rigid institutional matrix in which you operate. In this episode, Dr. Sharon Stein sits down with Dr. Najjia Mahmoud , Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery at University of Pennsylvania and past president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery, to dive into the clinical anatomy of burnout and what the antidote may be: In This Episode: Exploring the three domains of burnout: cynicism, emotional exhaustion, and a low sense of personal accomplishment and how it differs from depression. Why, despite advancement in your career, you may continue to feel a loss of control over your day-to-day. Dr. Mahmoud’s structural pillars of resilience: guarding physical health, cultivating self-awareness, maintaining connection outside of medicine, and practicing radical optimism. Building Blocks of Resilience: Physical Health: Guarding the baseline triage of nutrition, sleep, and exercise. Self-Awareness: Actively tracking internal thoughts, emotional triggers, and daily coping strategies. Flexibility…
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