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Public, private purse & precious Public, private purse & precious people: people:
Survival tips for the busy private Survival tips for the busy private practitionerpractitioner
“Career juggling & balancing” “Career juggling & balancing” Dr Rob Fry
Auckland City Hospital
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DisclosureDisclosure
• New Zealand
• Public practice 50%• Private practice 50%
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Public PracticePublic Practice
• Government funded, salaried contractual medical practice that provides health care regardless of age, sex, risk factors or ability to pay
• The Free Dictionary
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Private PracticePrivate Practice
• A professional health care provider who is (theoretically) independent of economic or policy control by professional peers except for licensing and other legal restrictions.
• Webster’s on line dictionary
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Precious PeoplePrecious People
• Patients
• Doctors
“Anaesthetists”
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DoctorsDoctors
• Precious commodity• Cost a lot to train – undergraduates alone
– NZ NZ$ 500 000
– Australia A$ 300 000 – 500 000
– USA >US$ 500 000
– HK ?unable to obtain data
– NZ Specialists > NZ$ 1 500 000
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Private PracticePrivate Practice
• Medicine generally is NOT big businessMedicine generally is NOT big business
• Private Anaesthetists in particularPrivate Anaesthetists in particular– Rarely employ other doctorsRarely employ other doctors– Have to be on the job to earn their moneyHave to be on the job to earn their money
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Public PracticePublic Practice
• Fixed income
• Long contractual hours
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DoctorsDoctors
• Characteristically: products of “medical families”
• >20% of doctors have medical parents• “I only saw my father when he was asleep”
• 50% of women doctors marry doctors• “My mother never had time to play with me”
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AnaesthetistsAnaesthetists
• Three A’s
• Availability• Affability
• Ability
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AnaesthetistsAnaesthetists
• Busy crowded lives
• Service Industry – Little Autonomy
• Career-centric lifestyle
• Defined by our job descriptions
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AnaesthetistsAnaesthetists
• Accessibility 24 hours a day
• Mobile phones, Texts, E-mails
• Home and work blurred
• Allow increasing workloads & deadlines
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We often lead Frenetic but meaningless lives
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Maintenance of personal equilibrium
• low priority
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Threats to SurvivalThreats to Survival
• Anaesthetists typically have type A personalities• “Self Critical, time conscious, status uncertainty,
incapable of relaxation…”
–Production pressured
–“Service industry”
• J Occ & Org Psych 1997
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Stress proportionately to hours worked• Long hours may be immensely satisfying• >48 hrs/week doubles chance dying from CHD
• Dysfunctional domestic life– Marital problems/Child responsibilities– Poor financial planning……
• J Org & Occ Psych 1997• The Physician Executiv 2006
• NZMC Workforce survey 1990
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Majority waking hours at work• Domestic problems unintentionally brought to
workplace – subconsciously processed there• Work is perceived as increasingly stressful &
unpleasant or undesirable environment• Synergistic deterioration in work practices
• BJ Psych 1997
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Occupational stress• Personal thresholds vary widely
Once that level of tolerance passed– Perpetual sympathetic bombardment– Serotonin, Steroids, Catecholamines
Low moodAnxietyDepressionPlethora of physical ailments
– European Psychologist 2002
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Unmanaged Occupational stress
– Burnout– Reduced patient care– Errors, complaints…
– Alcohol and or substance dependence– Suicide
– Loss of a very precious commodity
• BMJ 2009
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Fatigue– Impaired decision making– Prolonged reaction time & attention deficit– Memory impairment– “Microsleeps”– Linked to 3% all critical incidents
• An Int Care 2000
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Threats to survivalThreats to survival
• Fatigue• All sleep deprived physicians are affected
As little as < 5 hrs in 24 hrs - Perform on average 1.37 SDs rested
Mood changes (depression)
Reduced cognitive function 36% more errors on 24 hour shifts
24hrs awake = 100mg% C2H5OH (limit 80mg%)
Anaes 2003;58:520-525,
NEJM 2004;351:1838-48
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““Anaesthetists have higher rate of Anaesthetists have higher rate of accidents c/f physicians”accidents c/f physicians”
• So what can we do about this state of affairs?
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AnaesthetistsAnaesthetists
Time is a rare commodity
We all have the same amount of daily time and the choice of what we want to do with it
Our relationship with time should be bad stuff out good stuff in
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AnaesthetistsAnaesthetists
• Research requires unstructured time• for free flow of ideas and lateral thinking
• Play “essential activity” for creativity
• Important to protect/nurture:ourselves
– Maintain safe work practices
– J Cont Ed Health Prof 22:2;127-128
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Survival GuideSurvival Guide
Aim for a Healthy
“Life – Work Balance”
• No Magic Formula• Individual decision
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“Life – Work Balance”
• May be viewed in terms of • Happiness OR Meaningfulness• If one is totally fulfilled, enthused and excited by
one’s work the stress thrown in just becomes part of the success and satisfaction of the job
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• How can we achieve this?
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• Foster a feeling of “Well-Being”
• A happy Anaesthetist is safe and successful
50% Genetic (no control)• Science 1990
• Review of General Psychiatry 2005
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50% under your control
• 10% Circumstantial (home/city/family)
• 40% Daily activities & practices
• Science 1990• Review of General Psychiatry 2005
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• 10% Circumstantial
• Set realistic financial goals– House, suburb, schools…
EtonEton
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Survival GuideSurvival Guide• 10% Circumstantial
• Choose a good life partner….
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Survival GuideSurvival Guide• 10% Circumstantial
• Choose a suitable place to work
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• 10% Circumstantial• Avoid the workplace after hours
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“Well-Being”
40%
Daily activities & practices
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• 40% Daily Activities & Practices
• Volitional – Setting and achieving attainable short term Goals
• Behavioural – Initiating enjoyable activities
• Cognitive – Reappraisal of one’s situation and good fortune
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• 40% Daily Activities & Practices
• Volitional
• Set a few easily attainable Goals– What things do you want more time for?– What things use up your time?– What can you cut out?
• Consider some exciting life changes• Think how you can create some free time
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• 40% Daily Activities & Practices
• Behavioural• Make time for relaxation
• Cut out unimportant meetings• Learn to delegate (Home & Work)
• Practice Cover (Group Practice – share the load)– Secretarial/PA support
• Consider your surgeons/hospitals/committees(Pass on those that drive you insane)
• Prioritise (use down time at work wisely)
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• Mark Priestley Chair of examiners• ANZCA Bulletin 2011
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• 40% Daily Activities & Practices
• Behavioural• Be pleasant – make others happy• Diffuse unpleasant circumstances fast• Cut back unfulfilling social activities• Develop close friends & SEE THEM
• Always have something special to look forward to which you enjoy
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• Behavioural• Lifestyle choices• “Aim” for 7 – 8 hrs Sleep• Melatonin Boost (Bed by 2230)
– Antioxidant, Premature aging, immunity
• Regular aerobic exercise, laughter, sex– Serotonin & Endorphins
• Elevates mood • JESP 2009• A&IC 2011
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• Behavioural• Engage regularly in activities you enjoy
– Hobbies/Art/Music/Film/Literature/Philosophy
• Play a sport - exercise regularly– improves your memory– Think how happy that friend is on his golf afternoon
• Take regular short holidays• Collegial Group practice – carefree cover
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• 40% Daily Activities & Practices
• Cognitive
• Maintain an awareness of your successes• Good fortune• Future adventures or plans
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40% Daily Activities & Practices
Pursue your goals without compromise
The brain runs on fun
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• Retirement preparation
Up to 30% of one’s life
New career
• A time of “Intellectual re-formatting”
• Low autonomy & High demand reversal
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• “Old age is full of enjoyment if you know how to use it”
• Anaesthetists are “Action people”
• Ample non earning time
• DEVELOP INTERESTS WHILE YOU WORK
• Seneca Moral Epistles AD 65• ASA Newsletter 2003
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Take a careful look at your life and work circumstances and act
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• Achievable Financial Goals• Insure
– Health– Practice– Life
• Legal Affairs– Wills– Trusts
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Keep your cool & Get supportKeep your cool & Get support
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Disasters do happen
• Anaesthetists – Highly intelligent– Problem solvers
• Financial planner
• Life coach
• Psychologist
• Counsellor
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• Manage StressThis hinges on:– Identifying cause
• Lack of control of working environment• Difficult professional relationships • Work overload• Work unpredictability• Domestic disharmony
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• Psychological ill health is amenable to change– Improved professional work culture – Inclusion & autonomy– Risk management training– Reduced work hours– Reduced pressure and work overload
• Occ Environ Med 2003
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“An achievable life enhanced
intellectually and financially by
medicine and not “ruined” by it.”
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CognitiveCognitive - Consider your GOOD - Consider your GOOD FORTUNEFORTUNE
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Survival SummarySurvival Summary
• Achievable financial goals• Time creation
– Group practice, P/A, Delegate (work & home)– Prioritise down time (reading/agendas…ipad!)– Disengage problematic surgeons, ineffectual meetings,
unfulfilling social activities, fruitless committees…
• Control 50% personality “foster well-being”– Be positive, laugh, elevate your mood– Give yourself permission to enjoy:
• Recreation, Sport, Hobbies, Music, Film…
• A happy Anaesthetist is successful & safe
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You've given up your whole life to You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it be the person you are now. Is it
worth it?worth it?
Richard Bach (1936 - )
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Thank youThank you