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- Political Advocacy! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 16
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week, we are welcoming back onto the mini-Podcast Dr. Todd Swenning, Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, and Medical Director for the Institute of Clinical Orthopedics and […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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PRACTICE Your Best!7 min - Emotional Hygiene! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes - Episode 15
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better…
This week on the mini-podcast, we are welcoming back Karla McLaren, where we talk about emotional hygiene as a supportive mechanism to avoid the spread of emotions from one difficult situation to the next e.g. where you have to give a patient bad news about their health. Instead it offers a reset between situations that allows you to approach difficult situations with fresh energy and motivation.
How do you practice Emotional Hygiene? By doing the following:- Take a breath in and out
- Visibly relax
- Create a sense of washing off the previous emotion and patient contact
- Create an event boundary around the previous emotion and patient contact
Most importantly, try applying the emotional hygiene routine together with your hand hygiene routine, and see how you feel at the end of the week!
About Karla McLaren, M.Ed.
If you’re not familiar with Karla, she is an award-winning author, and social science researcher. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics, LLC. Karla is also the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill(2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the multimedia online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (2012).
Empathic Burnout is a perfect example of how surgeons can improve their effectiveness inside and outside of the OR.SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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PRACTICE Your Best!9 min - Empathic Burnout! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 14
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are welcoming back Karla McLaren, where we talk about empathy and how it applies to burnout for healthcare professionals. We discuss the difference between compassion fatigue and empathic […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
Join your colleagues online at SurgeonMasters.com for events, resources, and more.
PRACTICE Your Best!8 min - Visualization! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 13
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are talking about visualization, which is the mental process of focusing on an outcome or successful completion, of a series of tasks. It’s a mental practice that you […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
Join your colleagues online at SurgeonMasters.com for events, resources, and more.
PRACTICE Your Best!7 min - Just Breathe 2! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 12
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are welcoming back Stephanie Mathless, where she builds on the fundamental breathing techniques from Episode 10 that aimed to calm, relax and destress. On this new episode she introduces two […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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PRACTICE Your Best!10 min - Knowing Your Handicap! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 11
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are talking about measuring our own self-improvement by ‘Knowing Your Handicap’ and how this system can be applied from golf to other parts of our lives and career. […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
Join your colleagues online at SurgeonMasters.com for events, resources, and more.
PRACTICE Your Best!9 min - Just Breathe! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 10
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are welcoming a new guest, Stephanie Mathless, where she discusses the importance of breathing techniques and the resulting benefits of bringing focus to your breathing, most notably its calming […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
Join your colleagues online at SurgeonMasters.com for events, resources, and more.
PRACTICE Your Best!9 min - Collaboration! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 9
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are welcoming a new guest, Katie Klein, where she discusses the use of improvisation to improve collaboration by using other people’s ideas to create something together. She describes it […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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PRACTICE Your Best!8 min - Faking It! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 8
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are talking about the benefits of ‘Faking It Until You Make It’ and how confidence is key. How do you Fake It Till You Make It? By doing […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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PRACTICE Your Best!8 min - Knowing Your Janitor’s Name! Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 7
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Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast we are welcoming back orthopaedic trauma surgeon, Phil Stahel, where he discusses one of the concepts of his book: knowing your janitor’s name. This concept originates from a quest […]
SurgeonMasters is a physician peer community dedicated to improving the personal and professional well-being of physicians.
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About The SurgeonMasters Podcast
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The SurgeonMasters Podcast is for surgeons who wish to create a highly successful and sustainable practice that is lifestyle-friendly with less stress and frustration. Each episode focuses on…
learning, understanding and implementing effective habits that will allow you to create a thriving practice while still having time to travel, connect with your family, take care of your health, and pursue outside interests. Your host is Jeffrey M. Smith, MD a practicing Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon (Orthopaedic Traumatologist) who also assists other Surgeons to develop the critical skills needed to create a highly successful lifestyle-friendly practice which is physically, mentally and emotionally sustainable.