Lightning rounds #27: Burnout and career sati...

Theresa Human, former academic clinical pharmacist in neurocritical care and now medical liaison for a large pharmaceutical company, chats about late-career transitions and working for private industry. Check out the Intensive Care Academy here! 

We step into the ring with Nick Ghionni, pulm/crit attending at MedStar Baltimore Hospital, who tries to convince us that the pressure-targeted, volume-titrated vent mode known as “PRVC” actually sucks. Check out the Intensive Care Academy here! 

Work can be a nightmare or one of the most satisfying aspects of our lives--depending on our motivation and attitude toward it. If it is a source of mastery and accomplishment for us it can be fulfilling. But if we use it to avoid feelings it will not be satisfying and can eve ...

Most of us would like to find meaning in the work we do, but many of us are burnt out or stressed at our jobs. In this episode, an international mental wellness educator, a former journalist turned meditation advocate, and the author of the literal book on millennial burnout shar ...  Show more

Do you find satisfaction and fulfillment at work? You spend many hours there so if you don’t, that can be a huge problem. In this episode, I’ve found some experts on the workplace to discuss this vital issue. What do studies show are the most important factors in being happy at w ...  Show more

Its on almost every personal statement for medical school admissions; we went into medicine to help people. But sometimes along the way we lose what brought us to medicine. Losing that sense of purpose can damage our well-being at work. How can we reconnect with it and why now, d ...  Show more