hey guys Rishi decide here I'm the chief
medical officer here at osmosis today
I'm going to talk about kind of three
tips to avoid burnout which is super
common number one tip make sure that
you're using what I call hax there's
lots and lots of hacks to get around the
bureaucracy of medicine that's something
that exists really everywhere I've
visited kind of a number of countries
around the world all have the same
problem of paperwork right so make sure
you come up with some hack some specific
ones that I've used are and some
hospitals that I've worked in what I've
been really really fortunate you can get
a medical scribe someone actually scribe
what you're writing as you're kind of
speaking to a patient that helps a lot
and if you're interviewing at a place
just to ask about that because the more
people ask about it the more hospitals
are going to invest in that so it's
always helpful to have someone else
doing the writing for you if you're not
able to have that or if that's not a
setup that's you know gonna happen at
your hospital no worries I've you know
been plenty of situations where that's
now possible and and there another hack
that I've used is using templates so
I'll have my notes in a template and I
basically will use the same template
before that can you know complain so you
know I have a template that's set up in
my computer for chest pain another
template for diarrhea another template
for asthma and so just how those
templates set up and so that when you
see those patients you can just kind of
knock those notes out really easy I also
kind of triggers your memory to ask
certain questions right so that's just
that's the idea like make sure you have
that little hack ready so you're not
spending all your time doing paperwork
so um I have a couple notes here another
thing I like to do is bundle my work so
again this is still tip number one
around how to you know get around the
bureaucracy bundling work means do all
your notes at once make sure you do all
your discharges at once make sure that
you if you have like four things to kind
of run by the pharmacy do all that at
once so make sure that you have all your
tasks kind of figured out so you know
alright I'm going to the pharmacy let me
take care of these three different pages
all at once or if I'm you know
discharging due to discharges together
so you're kind of like on a roll on that
so that's the kind of bundling that I
that I found very helpful
tip number two would be to make sure
that you set up your personal boundaries
right so you want to make sure that you
have you know a specific time when you
leave the hospital for me that was a
very specific 5 p.m. I signed out my
patients I had no problem doing that I
would make sure that you know I had all
my kind of things tucked at 5 o'clock
almost is it like you have an event to
go to or you'd have to pick up someone
or you have a meeting to go to there's
really firm limits in terms of what time
you get out of the hospital and really
hold yourself to that I got to get out
of five and they don't linger and so
creating really firm limits about when
you get into the hospital but also when
you get out of the hospital helps a lot
so setting really solid boundaries
helped with my burnout and stress level
because you know I had something to look
forward to I had an end time I wasn't
just kind of always in the hospital and
tip number three is make sure you have a
really solid you know work-life balance
so that the part of that that often kind
of suffers is the life so make sure that
you're doing things that you enjoy doing
so even in the middle of the the hardest
part of residency I at least found time
to read half a page of a book that I
liked you know just always do that
that's so important because the moment
you stop doing that is when you start
getting really frustrated and you start
kind of taking that out on people so try
to make sure that there's little things
that you're doing that really kind of
save your sanity you know for me
sometimes that would be taking a long
walk outside you know if I know I've got
you know ten extra minutes I'll just
take a little walk outside or talking to
friends I would make a habit of calling
my friends right after I've had a really
stressful kind of shift and I would just
go through the list if they're busy or
just call the next one in the next one
so just kind of creating these little
habits for yourself so that you have
something to look forward to outside of
just being in hospital
so again tip number one come up with my
kind of bureaucratic hacks so that
you're not always feeling inundated with
work for me that was you know relying on
medical scribes when that was available
more often they weren't available of
course and so then you know using
templates making sure that I bundle my
work tip number to make sure you set
firm limits on getting out of the
hospital I rarely would see people
accomplish that so it's a really hard
thing to do and so just make sure that
you're you're on top of it you're
getting out every single day at the same
time and tip number three make sure you
have a really really awesome kind of
work-life balance that there's something
in your life that you're looking forward
to and it doesn't have to be amazing you
don't have to go out all the time or
party all the time or whatever but but
really just even little things that you
really care about that you're taking
advantage of doing those on a regular
basis so those are the things that
helped me get through the stressful
times and of course talking to friends
and decompressing until next time take
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