Work/Life Balance

Are your physician peers, staff, and family supporting you in your quest to have better work-life balance? Here’s how they can help?

Still struggling with achieving balance? Here are three ways I've managed to get mine.

My husband and I owe the success of our practice to being a micropractice and our participation in an independent physician association.

Physicians shouldn't try to shoulder all the responsibilities that come with practicing medicine. Don't go it alone. A team-based approach can help.

How an action plan can help you serve your patients and improve your home life.

Rest for both body and mind is a crucial part of work-life balance for doctors. It makes us more productive, not less.

On vacation, kids still need their diapers changed, noses wiped, meat cut up. You can still unwind, regardless.

Unhappy with the state of her practice, this doc decided to ask her patients what they wanted.

Our 2013 Great American Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, suggests older physicians are happier with their careers.

Our 2013 Great American Physician Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, reveals how private practice physician attitudes have shifted since 2009.

If I could enter my patients’ lives and see their disease-life balance, would I take their issues more seriously?

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Why downtime is so important for highly stressed doctors, and how it can improve productivity.

How one wise physician taught me to enjoy the work-life balance I've already achieved, and not just focus on improvements.

Our 2013 Great American Physician Survey findings reveal how practice setting affects work-life balance, career satisfaction.

Now that I have let go of obligations, my day off is actually a day off.

A smart administrator knows that taking the pulse of her practice is vital to heading off bad attitudes and cranky docs.

As a physician, you are always on the job; even on your flight to a family vacation in Florida when a medical emergency occurs.

Work-life balance works best when you dedicate yourself professionally at work and then let work go at home.

A friend who succumbed to pancreatic cancer reminded me, before her passing, how to live life well.

My summer to-do list includes celebrating the last baby I deliver, and watching the sunset. What does yours include?

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This weekend I immersed myself in my family as much as I usually immerse myself in my work as a physician.

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If medicine is your true calling, balancing home and work is much easier - even if you hate some parts of your job.

At my practice and at home, things are always busy. There's laundry or homework, or a patient with needs.

When my non-practicing physician husband said he was considering home schooling, work-life balance debates resurfaced.

As a physician and a parent, you do the best you can at work, and the best you can at home, and you try to stay sane.

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