Work/Life Balance

When I’m deciding what commitments to jettison, I keep in mind who it really matters for.

Noteworthy items from Physicians Practice.

Hurricanes and blizzards cause us to remember our humanity, to focus on necessary aspects of our overstuffed lives.

Relations between hospitals and physicians have never been especially warm. But the hospitals need your referrals and your patients need the services that hospitals provide. So how do you work together?

Describing his life of accomplishment, world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson advises setting distant goals and resolving to achieve them.

Spending time with colleagues and friends from my past and my present causes me to ponder the various ways people honor their own work-life balance.

A semester of study in Edinburgh, Scotland, helped this physician to learn that spirituality is a step away from empathy.

Like her own mentor, this physician encouraged her residents to embrace the fear that comes with obstetrics and conquer it to become confident and competent physicians.

Whether helping a patient or my son, coaching means sitting on my hands and not doing it for them.

Internist Gregg Friedman on his infant daughter's struggle for survival.

Consciously deciding to lower your stress is the first step to wellness.

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Physicians have long appeared in pop music, but which doctor songs do doctors like best? We asked. You told.

When it comes to physical fitness, it’s hard to counsel patients to do something we ourselves fall short on.

Balance - whether between your shoulder elevators and scapular stabilizers or personal and professional obligations as a physician takes constant work.

Part of work-life balance is selecting those things that matter the most. Sometimes when you say good-bye to something, however, it really is a final good-bye.

An exercise at work to improve quality patient care might just benefit from my spouse-communication system at home.

How family physician Katharina Scharruhn and her partner-husband learned to treat their practice like a business.

My food choices reflect what type of balance I’m achieving …sometimes giving me life indigestion as a physician.

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My own triumph over being overweight demonstrated to patients that I could follow the advice I give and understand their difficulties.

Parent guilt just like doctor doubt is a serious force to be reckoned with, but you have to strike a balance between what is best and what is necessary.

Whether you have a lot of free time or just a few minutes each day, here are ways your skills can benefit those in need.

Running a medical practice is hard enough, but when the economy adds stressors, it gets even harder.

The backbone of our healthcare system - the physician - is in trouble, as physicians struggle to cope with forces of market and government-induced reform.

I'm going to take a cue from Little House on the Prairie and try to live more simply both at home and at my medical practice.

The qualities associated with an excellent physician are not always those associated with successful business people. Here's how you can strive to be both.

My advice to patients is a lot like my approach to yoga - don't go to the edge of your endurance or capability, save something in reserve.

I know I can't help every patient, but I try. But sometimes, some patients push me to the brink of frustration when they won't let me help.

I think sometimes, in trying to achieve work-life balance, we add more stuff to an already packed life in the misguided hope that …everything will fall into place.