A Physician Burnout Speaker Who Can Get Doctors to Laugh!
Call it what you will: burnout, compassion fatigue, abuse, moral injury … No matter how you label it, it has become all too common among healthcare professionals.
Dr. Brad gets doctors to laugh with his medical comedy.
And it’s an epidemic among physicians. They’ve always been used to the “normal” stress of caring for others. But they have so many more stressors in this current era of healthcare. Most have lost their autonomy, with administrators of big healthcare bureaucracies determining policies, cutting costs and forcing everyone to do more with less. Docs are dealing with insurance company policy makers, too, dictating what tests can be ordered and what therapies can be prescribed. Let’s not forget the threat of malpractice lawsuits in today’s hostile, litigious legal environment.
What is physician burnout?
And, of course, the government is involved, too, with regulations, mandates and a veritable alphabet soup from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program. And those acronyms bring to mind some others related to all the stressful tests doctors have to take throughout their lives: MCAT, USMLE, CME, ABMS MOC … And those are on top of the IV, EKG, MRI, CBC, KY and of course everyone’s favorite stress-inducing $%&#ing acronym: EMR!
OMG!
No wonder doctors are not just stressed; they’re overstressed! They’re not just tired; they’re exhausted! They’re cynical, disengaged, negative. They’re complaining and misbehaving. They’ve lost the joy of practicing medicine. There’s no LOL.
You want to help them. First, it’s the morally responsible thing to do when so many are turning to drugs, alcohol and even suicide. Second, it’s also a money-saving smart business decision, as continued burnout among providers means more staff turnover, more medical errors and malpractice suits, lower quality of care, lower patient experience scores, an impaired institutional reputation and ultimately lower profits.
Yes, a return on your investment in your physicians’ wellness can result in better morale, higher physician retention rates, improved recruitment of doctors, better quality and safety scores, improved patient satisfaction and an improved bottom line! That’s quite an ROI!
It’s time to care for the caregivers, to heal the healers!
“Your ability to find humor in our medical lives certainly has its healing properties.”
How A Speaker Can Help Physician Burnout
Is Dr. Brad the magic cure for physician burnout? Well, no. He’s not a superhero. The cure will depend on a number of factors: a responsive administration, an engaged physician leadership team, a workplace culture shift that focuses on clinician wellness, more efficient systems in place to reduce clerical burden, more intuitive electronic health records (EHRs), better food in the staff lounge …
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Dr. Brad isn’t going to overstate the importance of one of his house calls. But he’s not going to minimize it, either. Scheduling a visit with Dr. Brad is a step in the right direction. It will show your physicians you’re doing something out of the ordinary for them. You’re willing to care for your caregivers and give them an enjoyable respite from their high patient volumes, hectic schedules and voluminous paperwork and documentation requirements. They’ll actually have fun! And they can even get continuing medical education (CME) for the program!
“Brad presented his delightful Medical Humor to a very overworked, tired and stressed Annual Medical Staff Dinner Meeting as a keynote speaker. He has a great message, is easy to work with and a delightful presenter. My Medical Staff responded very positively, and everyone had an extremely enjoyable evening. A totally successful experiment!”
A Physician Motivational Speaker Who Can actually Motivate Physicians?!
Doctors are their own breed. Their time is stretched thin with charting, insurance forms and cumbersome electronic medical record (EMR) systems. They’re unlikely to give their time and attention to the typical annoying motivational speaker. They certainly will roll their eyes at the usual rah-rah-you-can-do-it-cheerleading and hackneyed acronyms of gobbledygook. As a physician himself, Dr. Brad can relate. He understands the daily stressors. And he knows the sarcasm, cynicism and exhaustion (both physical and emotional) that creep in as burnout begins to take hold of a physician.
But as an atypical motivational speaker, Dr. Brad has a remedy for combating burnout that physicians will actually enjoy! Using humor, he can help facilitate a shift in perspective, so providers aren’t just seeing the stressors and frustrations of medicine but also the joy and absurdity. Yes, those positive elements are still there, and Dr. Brad can help identify them. He can evoke those smiles and laughs that have been missing for so long. He can even get doctors to laugh at themselves! He can help providers find humor they can use in their interactions with coworkers and patients. And he can kickstart a self-care program, encouraging physicians to get ample doses of humor from the activities and people that make them laugh and smile.
The end result from this comedian doctor is an uplifting and inspiring program that lifts physicians’ spirits, boosts morale and improves resilience and well-being.
That’s caring for caregivers! That’s healing the healers!
““A healthy dose of humor is exactly what every physician needs today, and your treatment made it all the more fun … Far better than magnificent!”
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“We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Dr. Brad Nieder, The Healthy Humorist®, for helping to make our Provider Gala such a great success. We received only positive feedback on Dr. Nieder’s show from our guests. He chose material which was very well-suited to our audience and exactly in line with our request for a “non-expletive” show … Just as a stethoscope is part of a healthcare professional’s equipment to care, equally as important is Dr. Nieder’s message to incorporate laughter into our lives. His presentation complemented our mission to continually engage physicians in caring for themselves as they care for others.
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