I moved to NY and New Podcast!
Hello Friends,
I am writing this from my new home in Rochester, NY. I moved in just four days ago. I am loving it and cannot wait to start hosting farm to table dinners, workshops and soulful intuitive healing retreats!
In case you missed it…
We don’t have an episode this week (keep an eye out next week!) but our last episode with Rachel Reinhart Taylor is one worth listening to.
Physician suicide and physician burn out is a subject that has been in my heart the entire time I have been a doctor. It is acutely obvious many doctors are not happy, fulfilled, or satisfied with their lives, no matter the paycheck.
All the things you are frustrated with the medical industry as a patient are often the same or nearly the same things that leave doctors heartbroken, empty and numb.
RANT WARNING - AND THIS MATTERS!
Our healthcare industry as an entire system is sick and broken. It does not allow doctors to do their best medicine from their hearts, speak their truth, or get help when they need support to get through difficulty at work or at home.
I have always said if we simply freed up practitioners to practice their best medicine, true to their hearts, we would solve many of the problems of today's healthcare even without incorporating natural and lifestyle medicine! (Though we could solve nearly all of them if we did.)
If the people who literally deliver the medicine were happy, healthy, whole, nourished and empowered themselves - miracles could be produced everyday, versus tragedy.
I am not the only one speaking out about this. I just recently found out about this new book, Uncaring: How The Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors & Patients By Robert Pearl, MD. [Learn more by listening to Dr. Zubin Damania’s podcast ZDOGGMD with the author.]
Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and the Industrial Medical Complex is a monolith born from our patriarchal, white privilege culture and embedded way more in politics than it is in science, medicine or healing.
No matter the desire and passion to be a healer each doctor, nurse, and medical care taker has, the system itself wears this love and resolve down to a nub. It seems only the toughest, and numbest survive and often at the expense of their own physical and mental well being.
I am crystal clear doctors and nurses are phenomenal people with massive commitments to make a difference. So why then do we hear so many stories of judgement and discrediting of people's concerns coming from the mouths of patients about their practitioners?
My assertion is that it is the very paradigm practitioners must adopt of toughing it out, minimizing pain and emotions, they need to make it in their own training and workplace.
I imagine some of you reading this might be triggered just from reading this and have reactions and responses, AND we HAVE to talk about it.
How can we expect our physicians to support us to heal ourselves when they are not whole and allowed to heal themselves?
It's well past time to be talking about this, to be creating a safe place for medical practitioners to discuss their work hours, the demands on them physically and emotionally, their PTSD, their exhaustion, and their commitment and passion for medicine and taking care of people. Of all time in history, now, one year into COVID, we have to do more to take care of those who take care of us.
Listen to Dr. Rachel Taylors podcast about Physician Suicide and Burn out right on my website or wherever you listen to podcasts.